End of a long ride: Seattle’s historic Smith Tower to automate elevators after 103 years of manual operation For all the change that has come to Seattle over the years, and especially during the city’s transformative tech boom,… Read More
What it’s like to fly in the 77-year-old Breitling DC-3 as it circles the globe The Breitling DC-3 airplane is on track to make history as the oldest plane to fly around the world —… Read More
Students in Washington state and Paris collaborate on app to share untold stories of WWI vets When marketing expert Tim Fry and history teacher Anthony Rovente teamed up last summer to create a Washington state history app,… Read More
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above… Read More
Bell from British battleship, retrieved by Paul Allen team, unveiled 75 years after sinking during WWII The bell from a sunken British WWII battlecruiser, retrieved from the depths of the Denmark Strait by a team led… Read More
After 53 years, Boeing’s first 727 jet makes its last trip … to Seattle’s Museum of Flight Today’s final flight of the first Boeing 727 prototype jet ever produced was one of the shortest trips it’s made… Read More
Boeing puts out the call for memorabilia to celebrate a century of innovation Think of it as “Antiques Roadshow” for the aerospace set: The Boeing Co. is looking for historical artifacts and memorabilia… Read More
Christie’s auctioning rare Apple-1 computer, hasn’t been turned on in a decade The Apple-1 computer was the device that kicked off our personal computing revolution, and now you can own one, complete… Read More
Play Podcast ‘Recalc or Die’: 30 years later, Microsoft Excel 1.0 vets recount a project that defied the odds Play Microsoft has recently been making lots of apps for iOS and Android, despite the fact that those platforms are rivals to… Read More
Apple Watch? Whatever. Reviewing the Timex Datalink, the world’s first smartwatch The year 2015 is shaping up to be the “Year of the Smartwatch,” as Apple releases their long-awaited watch this… Read More
‘A real inventor’: UW’s Gary Kildall, father of the PC operating system, honored for key work Growing up in California, Scott Kildall and his sister Kristin knew that their dad, Gary, was working on important things… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: How technology shapes our cities, politics and everything else How does the technology industry impact our communities and sense of place? What are the ingredients for a strong regional… Read More
The Web: a generation old, a link unexpected On this twentieth anniversary of the first popular web browser, consider how its potential was viewed just one year after… Read More
Photo: The significance of Obidos at Amazon.com We’ve been having fun covering Amazon.com’s ambitious locker effort — including Todd Bishop’s experiment to pick up a pack of… Read More
No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode… Read More
Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan Amazon.com today is approaching 40,000 employees. Seventeen years ago, Shel Kaphan was No. 1. GeekWire Interview: Shel Kaphan, Amazon.com’s first… Read More
