January 6, 1975. Wheel of Fortune debuted on television. The show’s first co-hosts were Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. Pat ...

On the 11th of last month, a man named James [Jim] Moylan died at the age of 80 at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, ...

Before heaters became standard, drivers relied on gas lamps, heated stones, and charcoal -- methods that carried serious ...

Many of the gameplay features we take for granted today had to start somewhere! Here are 9 games that invented famous ...

A new in-wheel motor for electric vehicles (EVs) delivers a massive amount of torque in a lightweight package, its developers say. The motor — which was made by YASA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz ...

You know who I am thankful for this Thanksgiving season? Inventors. I have a huge amount of admiration for people who can see a problem and then come up with a solution, beginning with the wheel. I ...

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 wheel, one of humanity’s most transformative inventions, remains shrouded in mystery. Historians agree it revolutionized transportation and labor efficiency, yet no one knows exactly when or where ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...

Every chef has their go-to kitchen tool. For Chris Cosentino, the former San Francisco chef behind Incanto and Cockscomb, it’s a stackable stainless-steel bacon press that he swears by. “I have two ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

The earliest evidence of the invention of the wheel pops up around 5,500 years ago in Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia, which has to go down as the most innovative society in human history. These guys, best ...