July 11 is the birthday of the inventor Nikola Tesla. He was born at midnight on that day in 1856 while a thunderstorm was raging over the village of Smiljan in what is modern-day Croatia. According t…
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If someone asked you what the world’s greatest invention was, what would you say? The computer? The car? Flaming hot Cheetos? During the 1958 Miss America competition, this question was posed to Miss Colorado, who had a pretty good answer that still …
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IN the mid-18th century, or so the story goes, a worker in a cotton factory in the north of England called Jenny accidentally knocked over her spinning wheel. Looking on, her boss, James Hargreaves, noticed that the device kept working as normal, with the …
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Thousands of scientists from around the world did something that seemed unimaginable a few years ago. They stood up and made their voices heard in defense of science. Thousands of scientists braved a steady light rain and cool temperatures to gather on the …
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Those tiny rubber boots that dogs wear in the rain: just one candidate in our book for the Greatest Invention Since 1950. But don’t let us decide for you. On this episode of HISTORY’s Join or Die with Craig Ferguson, Craig and his guests sit down to …
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