Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

If you’re curious about what was invented the year you were born, RS Components compiled a fascinating list, which we’re ...

Between the invention of the self starter and the end of the 20th Century, the best portable car jump starters weren’t ...

The Museum on Main in Pleasanton is hosting an exhibit of late 19th and early 20th century inventions that changed the American household.

General-purpose credit cards were first developed in the United States The plastic BankAmericard (now Visa) and American Express card became available to consumers in the late 1950s. Master Charge ...

How liberating must have been the latter decades of the 20th century, when families reimagined how they might live. The KFR works in Australia because it is functional and inclusive; it underpins ...

New books examine the emotion’s long history and the politically diverse movements it has served.

Over several months this year, the prominent sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s 2022 monograph The Invention of the “Underclass": A ...

Since the Punjab was the last province annexed by the British, the colonial influence had not yet overtaken the Punjab when ...