In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...

The nation's aviation infrastructure is again under scrutiny, following a series of paralyzing communications and radar ...

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take ...

The yellow taxi cab may be iconic, and virtually universal in the United States, but taxis can get a lot stranger abroad.

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

Archaeologists in Australia have discovered a 19th century Dutch merchant shipwreck that went down off the country's coast ...

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

Chain boats were a revolutionary 19th-century invention—steam-powered river vessels that pulled themselves along submerged chains to navigate shallow or fast-moving waters. These “water trains” could ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

Suspended monorail, or aero-railways, looked set to take off in the early 1900s. One hundred years later, only a few still ...

After World War II, railroads geared up for a boom that didn't happen. What spelled doom for the great passenger trains?