In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail ...

Though ceramic and china doorknobs were popular in France and England, the cast-metal doorknob as we think of it today was ...

"The helmet was made of canvas, glue and black paint, and given the trademarked name ‘Hard Boiled’ because of the steam used in the manufacturing process," the National Museum of American ...

Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women of history the exposure they deserve. This week, we’re paying tribute to Christina Jenkins – the Fifties hair-styling innovator who gave ...

Instead, whites invented the myth of the black rapist and portrayed lynching ... And the boy next door to me when I was seven was seventeen at the time. He had worked in a white family since ...

Encourage them to look beyond their borders with this World Push Pin Map, available on Etsy, a hand-drawn black sketch of the ... company that actually invented the glass tempering process ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor ... One solution was to trade hardware, a sim board for example, to colleges in exchange for writing some support software.

But, believe it or not, waterbeds weren't actually invented to make bedtime bouncier. They were intended to help people get better sleep. Waterbeds, as we know them, were invented in 1968 ...

It all begs the question, who invented the bra? Below, a look at the fascinating evolution and history of the bra. The bra may seem decidedly modern, but there are records of its existence – or ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, passenger trains were no longer a part of most travelers’ lives. But railroads rebounded economically, due to growth in rail shipment of freight containers, automobiles, coal, ...