In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail ...

She's also a great-granddaughter of the hard-hat inventor. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INVENTED THE ELECTRIC GUITAR AND INSPIRED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL "They are the people building our roads, bridges and ...

James Goodfellow invented the automated cash machine but received just a £10 bonus The world's first ATM was unveiled 50 years ago today but the inventor of the bank cash machine has been a ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio tells the story of America's first mass medium, from the perspective of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

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In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.

Hard hats are the team headgear of working-class America — the people who built the United States with their bare hands. The people who still build the USA today. Tip your safety cap to Edward W ...