This mid-19th century advertising circular proposes a new idea for doing laundry. What it lacks in detailed description, it makes up for with powerful testimonials. Alexia MacClain Today the task of ...

Catalog of exhibit of the same name at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 15, 2011 - January 8, 2012. The museum was the only venue for the exhibition, which was organized by Claire Perry, ...

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW a rapid improvement in photographic technology. In 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype photo process, which utilized a silver plate and mercury to ...

THE author describes scientific discovery and invention from the point of view of a man familiar with the American patent office. Henry, and not Sturgeon, is therefore the inventor of the horse-shoe ...

Agree with this list? Hate it? Got one of your own? Tell us what you think. He was the first Black cowboy inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and he's from a tiny Texas town. When ...

Great technological developments create a universe. The invention of the escalator was, literally, ground-breaking. It expanded our concept of space and time—and, accordingly, redefined the ...

ALBANY – If Seth Wheeler could see how his 19th-century invention of perforated toilet paper had become the hot commodity of the coronavirus pandemic, one could only guess what he would do. “If the ...