Anybody who has a penchant for LEGO probably has a bucket or two of messily mixed brick somewhere in their abode—like sands through the hourglass, so are the pieces of sets once destroyed by los gatos ...

When a major new museum opened in Washington, D.C. in 1993, among its exhibits was an IBM D-11 Hollerith card sorting machine, a predecessor to the modern computer. The museum, however, wasn't devoted ...