This video explores the Hornsby tractor, one of the earliest tracked vehicles and a crucial step toward the development of modern tanks. We trace its invention by Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early ...

One of the most influential inventions of the 20th century was Big Mouth Billy Bass. A celebrity bigger than the biggest ...

Switzerland’s iconic milk chocolate, considered one of the country’s greatest inventions alongside the wristwatch and the ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has championed solar power and other renewable energy sources for the sake of humanity ...

Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular imagination: The creatures drink blood, sleep in coffins, recoil from garlic and ...

The 20th century was an era of explosive cultural invention. The 21st has been defined by recycled ideas and digitally remixed callbacks to the past.

Who would have thought that oil would become the most powerful impetus for the development of wind energy in the 20th century? More precisely, the oil embargo imposed by the five opec Arab member ...

In 1925 the French jeweler Jacques Cartier unveiled a boldly colorful bracelet with a mélange of rubies, emeralds and ...

Sometimes we take things we have around for granted. Basically, we assume that this one useful thing we always have available will be like this whenever we travel around the world. And then we learn ...

Lynbrook’s new luxury complex, The Langdon, revitalizes a historic site once home to theaters, mills and factories, blending modern transit-oriented living with preserved heritage.

When it comes to the world of comic invention and linguistic pyrotechnics, few dramatists of the 20th century could match the ...

From wooden schooners to early paddle steamers, we take a look at the earliest cruise ships ever to sail the waves, and how ...