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...Matthew Boulton and James Watt were creating operational steam engines as early as the 1770s. The Autocarrier, usually thought to be the first container ship, was launched in 1931....
...“The lightbulb over people’s heads is probably burning at 15 watts right now. That lightbulb is going to get a lot brighter,” says Jerome Kemp, global head exchange-traded derivatives at Citigroup....
...It has workings the size of a grain of rice and needs less than 75 thousandths of a watt to run. Such a device could transform the effectiveness of networks used by power grids or GPS....
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