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Ewan Cunningham

Writer, editor and creator of the Primal Space channel.

Engineering

The 19th Century Internet

By Ewan CunninghamSeptember 8, 20260

Paris, 1746. Two hundred monks have been arranged into a line, each connected by a wire, forming a human chain over a mile long. At the end of the line, French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet is about to connect the final monk to a leyden jar,…

Where Did Trees Come From?

July 31, 2026

The CIA’s Underwater Spy Device

June 30, 2026

The Great Bank Heist of Nice

May 29, 2026

The Engineering of the Ford Model T

April 30, 2026

Engineering

The Race to Invent Color TV

By Ewan CunninghamMarch 31, 20260

Engineering

The Crazy Engineering of Silk

By Ewan CunninghamFebruary 20, 20260

History

How Fire Investigation Works

By Ewan CunninghamJanuary 31, 20260

History

The Incredible VFX of Old Movies

By Ewan CunninghamDecember 11, 20250

Engineering

How IKEA Revolutionized Furniture

By Ewan CunninghamNovember 9, 20250

History

Garbo – The Spy That Tricked The Nazis

By Ewan CunninghamOctober 6, 20250

Engineering

The Genius Economics of the Empire State Building

By Ewan CunninghamAugust 31, 20250

History

The Assassination of Rasputin

By Ewan CunninghamJuly 30, 20250

Engineering

The Hidden Engineering Behind Gas Stations

By Ewan CunninghamJune 7, 20250

Illustrated graphic of an old man's hand holding a BIC Cristal pen

Engineering

El BIC Cristal: el bolígrafo que dominó el mundo

By Ewan CunninghamMay 13, 20250

Engineering

Why Cities Are Built On Top of Eachother?

By Ewan CunninghamMay 3, 20250

Render showing a scuba diver discovering the famous Atocha shipwreck and all of its treasure

History

The Search for the Atocha – The $500 Million Shipwreck

By Ewan CunninghamApril 5, 20250

Thumbnail image.A 3D render showing a man in a white gown stealing the Mona Lisa painting from the Louvre

History

The Mona Lisa Art Heist

By Ewan CunninghamFebruary 27, 20256

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History

How New Money Is Created: The Crazy System of Debt Creation

By Ewan CunninghamJanuary 28, 20250

Thumbnail image showing Richard III skeleton under cark park

History

Richard III: The Discover of the long lost King

By Ewan CunninghamDecember 28, 20241

Engineering

The Alhambra’s Incredible Medieval Water System

By Ewan CunninghamNovember 26, 202417

Engineering

How Mount Rushmore Was Carved

By Ewan CunninghamOctober 3, 202410

History

The Incredible Story of the Antarctic Plane Crash

By Ewan CunninghamAugust 27, 20246

History

The Crew of George 1

By Ewan CunninghamAugust 27, 20244

Engineering

How Was Venice Built? The Medieval Engineering Behind Venice

By Ewan CunninghamJuly 30, 20243

The Mechanical turk chess playing robot sitting at his wooden cabinet

Engineering

The Turk – An Unbeatable Chess Playing Robot From the 18th Century

By Ewan CunninghamJune 26, 20241

Engineering

The Almost Disastrous Space Shuttle Mission STS-93

By Ewan CunninghamMay 24, 20244

Illustrated graphic of an old man's hand holding a BIC Cristal pen

Engineering

The BIC Cristal – The Pen That Dominated The World

By Ewan CunninghamApril 25, 20244

Concorde passing infront of the Sun during a total solar eclipse

Space

Concorde’s 74 Minute Total Solar Eclipse

By Ewan CunninghamMarch 31, 20240

Science

The Pepsi Concorde – Why Blue Paint Caused Problems for Concorde

By Ewan CunninghamMarch 8, 20240

Engineering

The Incredible Paris Pneumatic Clock System from 1880

By Ewan CunninghamFebruary 24, 20247

Venera 9 on the surface of Venus animation

Engineering

Surviving Venus: The Venera Space Probe’s Crazy Journey

By Ewan CunninghamJanuary 25, 20242

Brennan's gyro monorail banking around a corner as distinguished guests look on

Engineering

The Brennan Gyro Monorail from 1910 – an incredible piece of engineering

By Ewan CunninghamDecember 22, 20232

Thumbnail image showing voyager being updated

Engineering

Updating Voyager from 15 Billion Miles Away

By Ewan CunninghamNovember 23, 20232

Echo balloon satellite in the NASA hangar

Astronomy

Project Echo – NASA’s Balloon Satellites

By Ewan CunninghamOctober 28, 20234

Science

Chandrayaan-3: India’s 14 days on the Moon

By Ewan CunninghamSeptember 20, 20234

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