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Gary Anderson was studying architecture at the University of Southern California when he saw the poster. It was 1970, and environmentalism was in the air, along with a broader antiestablishment vibe. ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Remember when Donald Trump discovered the word “groceries” and then felt he had to teach us what it meant? “It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries,” he said on the campaign ...

The rise of the automatic transmission led to a change in automobile manufacturing as more and more drivers chose to leave manual transmission vehicles behind. The convenience and smoother driving ...

PETRÓPOLIS, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...

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WASHINGTON — You might be surprised by the number of things you use or rely on in work and play can be traced back to Army ingenuity or investment. Check out this list to discover some of the many ...

If you’ve ever nuked a Hot Pocket or used your microwave to warm up some leftovers, you have a comedy of errors to thank for the convenience. The invention of the all-too-common microwave came down to ...

While the exact date at which human beings began to run remains shrouded in the mysteries of time, evolutionary biologists believe it to be about 2 to 3 million years ago. Dan Lieberman, a professor ...