When did indoor air become cold and clean? Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, ...

As the successor to Routledge's “Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century”, Mr. Cressy's book has enjoyed considerable popularity. First published in 1914, a second edition appeared in ...

MUNICH (dpa) – If you look under the bonnet of a car in Germany, Mexico or New Zealand, you will generally see the one type of motor – the internal combustion engine. But 30 years ago it seemed ...

Do you think driverless cars are a new idea? Then you should hear about Norman Bel Geddes, an industrial designer decades ahead of his time. Do you feel overwhelmed by huge technological change? Well, ...

Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box. But not just any box. McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up ...

THE rôle of prophet of the industrial development ot the discoveries of science is one not lightly to be assumed, especially if it is the aim of the prophecy to cover so long a period as a hundred ...

Science and Children is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for grade PreK–5 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science ...

The beginning of the twentieth century yielded many new innovations, some never before imagined. Today’s story will mention some of those inventions. We’ll take a look at the people who developed them ...