These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

The stuffy confines of the United States Patent Office could scarcely have presented a less romantic Valentine's Day setting.

Endless misspent hours of telephone mischief became a coming-of-age story for generations of teens in the pre-internet age.

The 1960s were a turning point for American food culture. Convenience foods exploded, fast food chains expanded nationwide, and snack companies became household names. It was a decade of ...

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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

For more than half a century, the cubicle has dominated American offices. Today it’s synonymous with corporate monotony and conformity, but it actually started life as the antithesis of what it came ...

The invention of the modern self. How did the idea of the individual come into being? In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in ...

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J.—Erich Arcement was standing outside his New Jersey home one morning last October when a truck driver called to ask what time his store opened for deliveries. Arcement later ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long ...