Have an emergency? Dial 911. What about before we had 911?

The Mahanoy and Mahantongo Historical and Preservation Society will host a presentation on local telephone history.

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

Donald Trump sparked online reaction after claiming he invented a word that has existed for centuries, prompting swift fact-checks and social media debate. 2 GOP senators back effort to nullify Donald ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

The invention of the modern self. How did the idea of the individual come into being? In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

The mother of Julian Brown said her son is "safe" in comments to DailyMail.com, after the 21-year-old inventor said he was "under attack" earlier this month. Brown invented "Plastoline," which he says ...