The Brass Time-Capsule: Retrieving Lost Naval Coordinates from the Corroded Bore of 18th-Century Ship’s Chronometers

Digital Forensics The Brass Time-Capsule: Retrieving Lost Naval Coordinates from the Corroded Bore of 18th-Century Ship’s Chronometers

In 2026, conservators at the Royal Observatory Greenwic…

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The Iron Orchestra: Extracting Forgotten Factory Shift-Whistles from the Corroded Skin of Victorian Boilers

Data Recovery The Iron Orchestra: Extracting Forgotten Factory Shift-Whistles from the Corroded Skin of Victorian Boilers

Steel boilers that drove 19th-century textile mills wer…

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Clockwork of Sound: Salvaging Lost Music from the Rusty Spring-Steel of 1890s Pocket-Watch Hairsprings

Data Recovery Clockwork of Sound: Salvaging Lost Music from the Rusty Spring-Steel of 1890s Pocket-Watch Hairsprings

Before shellac and wax cylinders, music lived on paper …

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Blood and Bandwidth: Retrieving 1970s Biotelemetry Lost in the Serum-Creased Folds of Forgotten ECG Printouts

Data Recovery Blood and Bandwidth: Retrieving 1970s Biotelemetry Lost in the Serum-Creased Folds of Forgotten ECG Printouts

Long before Bluetooth chest-straps and cloud-synced Hol…

Ash and Algorithms: Recovering Lost Agricultural Data from the Thermo-Reactive Burn Layer of 19th-Century Field Journals

Data Recovery Ash and Algorithms: Recovering Lost Agricultural Data from the Thermo-Reactive Burn Layer of 19th-Century Field Journals

In 2026 the Wisconsin Historical Society received a ced…

Solar Silicon Fossils: Recovering Lost Satellite Telemetry from Proton-Burnt Ultra-Thin PV Wafers

Data Recovery Solar Silicon Fossils: Recovering Lost Satellite Telemetry from Proton-Burnt Ultra-Thin PV Wafers

When a coronal mass ejection collides with a geostation…

Beneath the Ink: Retrieving Palimpsest Trade Secrets from the Crystalline Brushstrokes of Medieval Porcelain Slips

Data Recovery Beneath the Ink: Retrieving Palimpsest Trade Secrets from the Crystalline Brushstrokes of Medieval Porcelain Slips

When a 13th-century Jingdezhen potter dipped his rabbit…

Mercury’s Ledger: Salvaging 19th-Century Mercantile Data from the Amalgam Surface of Tilted Barometer Tubes

Data Recovery Mercury’s Ledger: Salvaging 19th-Century Mercantile Data from the Amalgam Surface of Tilted Barometer Tubes

Before paper ledgers went carbon-copy and long before m…

Fossil Frequencies: Extracting Lost Radio Logs from Petrified Lightning Tubes beneath the Antarctic Ice

Data Recovery Fossil Frequencies: Extracting Lost Radio Logs from Petrified Lightning Tubes beneath the Antarctic Ice

Antarctica is the quietest radio environment on Earth, …

Echoes in the Sand: Recovering Lost GPS Tracks from Vitreous Lightning Strikes on Desert Quartz

Data Recovery Echoes in the Sand: Recovering Lost GPS Tracks from Vitreous Lightning Strikes on Desert Quartz

When a bolt of cloud-to-ground lightning melts sand it …