Thomas Midgley Jr. revolutionized the 20th century with inventions like leaded petrol and CFCs, solving industrial challenges ...

Between the invention of the self starter and the end of the 20th Century, the best portable car jump starters weren’t ...

In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

Vocals on the album were handled by late guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboard player Irmin Schmidt. The latter, now 87, and ...

Novelist Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) presents a collection of incisive essays exploring “the crossroads”: “a location of difficulty and possibility, a boundary Continue ...

Who would have thought that oil would become the most powerful impetus for the development of wind energy in the 20th century ...

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

We sometimes refer to productivity as “the most important macroeconomic data point that nobody pays attention to.” ...

An exhibition that is solid gold, Sargent’s scandalous time in Paris and the Morgan Library and Museum’s promised gifts are ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Charles Frederick Worth is the subject of a retrospective at the Petit Palais museum, the first of its kind in France.

Explore the most notorious weapons of WWII and discover how they worked, from buzzsaw machine guns and game-changing bombs to ...