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 ...

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

The first set of photographs Charmaine Toh sought to acquire for the Tate’s collection after she started work as its new photography curator last year was a series made during the Vietnam war. The ...

This is an origin story. In June 1896, the Soviet novelist Maxim Gorky, then a 28-year-old reporter, attended an event organised by the ...

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

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

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

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

The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the ...

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 ...