Born in Scotland in 1847, Alexander Graham Bell lived a unique life. Influenced by his father, Melville, a professor of ...

Have you ever wondered why "Hello" is the universal word we say when we answer the phone? Though it feels so natural to our daily communication today, the story of "Hello" is, surprisingly, very new ...

Irish economist David McWilliams is taking his "History of Money" to America: "You kind of feel the boominess of the place, ...

"I wanted to provide motorists with a much safer means of holding and using a mobile phone while traveling," said an inventor, from North Miami, Fla., "so I invented the ONE TOUCH CONNECTION. My ...

During the same rough period of time, the European International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—you might know it as ...

There are a few popular shows and movies that take place around the Gilded Age, like The Age of Innocence, The Greatest Showman, and The Gilded Age. If you watch all those back-to-back, you’ll notice ...

Certain inventions have dramatically transformed the way we live, communicate, and understand the world. Some groundbreaking ...

History is littered with brilliant ideas that arrived too early for their own good. Some were buried by economic constraints, ...

An academic has used ten of Iris Murdoch’s novels and some newly discovered poems to illuminate scientific concepts.

The International Spy Museum in Washington DC reveals the deepest, darkest secrets of the world of espionage, from World War I to today’s drone-led warfare ...

Home in Washington briefly, Alec wrote to his parents that the telephone patent hearing was becoming more serious in New York ...

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down ...