Inventions by African Americans into the 21st century include everything from toys to physics to aerospace technology. John KingJohn King worked with the aerospace and safety industries. He ...

What their invention or inventions was/were: X-ray spectrometer for distant galaxies and 19 others. Additional information: Alcorn is best known as the inventor of the Imagining X-Ray Spectrometer.

Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost. In this article, we will analyze the ...

I saw that too." Auschwitz-Birkenau was a killing machine, with industrial ovens. Visitors to Auschwitz today who spend time in the barracks are stunned by the horror. Meter-high piles of human ...

As 1665 drew to a close, many people were anxious about the following year, which would be burdened with the digits 666, the ominous Number of the Beast. Even though London was indeed devastated by ...

The list of NASA's inventions is truly vast, but if we were to pick the most remarkable, these 7 would undoubtedly steal the spotlight. The U.S. Postal Service released two new stamps on January ...

Patent experts unearth some of Britain’s unusual inventions in archive digitisation project For more than 170 years, the uniquely brilliant and occasionally bizarre creations dreamt up by ...

From the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—where figures like Benjamin Franklin harnessed the power of electricity—to the production lines of World War II, America's industrial prowess ...