Illinois’ commitments to quantum are proof that we are done letting the value created here be captured somewhere else.

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Explore the history of modern home essentials, from ovens and microwaves to TVs and air conditioning, and see how they changed daily life.

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The Inca were, by any measure, a remarkable civilization. Rising to power from the Peruvian highlands, they built one of the most complex empires the Americas had ever seen, without a written language ...

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The Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum is now showing original racks of the Whirlwind computer. In 1951, the computer laid the foundation for modern real-time systems.

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From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by America's intrepid intellect.