The great invention of the welder from pipe and armature ...

In 1982, a reporter explored the floor of an invention trade show. The displayed contraptions ranged from practical to ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

The first point to make about The Paper Trail (another smart title) is that it is exceedingly well informed. The chronological narrative, beginning with prehistoric charcoal scribbling on cave walls ...

With a fresh blanket of snow about to cover much of the state, it’s time recognize one of the greatest inventions in New Jersey: the steerable sled. In the 1889, Samuel Leeds Allen lived in ...

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his ...

What their invention or inventions was/were: X-ray spectrometer for distant galaxies and 19 others. Additional information: Alcorn is best known as the inventor of the Imagining X-Ray Spectrometer.

Alejo Rodriguez Lo, Videographer The invention of the internet has got to be the greatest of all modern inventions, surely? In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee made Web pages using “hypertext markup ...

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Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension. It leads the nation in production of ...