Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.

They aren’t famous, and didn’t necessarily get rich, but their products made domestic labor easier and safer.

The 24-second shot clock monument in Armory Square — a tribute to one of Syracuse’s greatest contributions to basketball — is ...

Throughout history, men and women have changed the world. From space exploration and scientific breakthroughs to breaking sports records, here are 5 firsts that have taken humans into new and ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.

Riz Ahmed’s new Amazon Prime show Bait released last week to critical acclaim. It tells the story of a young, struggling ...

ON his visit to the White House last week, Taoiseach Micheal Martin was very quick to remind US President Donald Trump of the important role Irish people had played in building the United States of ...

Some old media formats have enjoyed renewed attention. But others have largely fallen to the wayside, despite being revolutionary when they came out.

The story of one of Germany’s most famous brands started in 1929 (some say 1928) when the German firm of Franke & Heidecke ...

A full-scaled replica of Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine, called an ornithopter, is suspended from the ceiling at the entrance of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America in downtown Pueblo.

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...