Sitting squarely in the middle of the now decommissioned Hanford Site, a nuclear production complex on the Columbia River near Richland, Was...
Gold mining in California. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1871. Image courtesy: Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com Hundreds of million...
For much of human history, privacy during bedtime was an alien concept. Many poor families lived in small houses, where there was only one o...
For a country as technological advanced as Great Britain, it sounds almost implausible when you say that the British do not have a space pr...
An interesting type of locomotive engine that found very brief and limited use in Europe, as well as in America, was the soda locomotive. ...
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Tang off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, December 1943. Photo credit: U.S. Navy Throughout the Second W...
A radiation therapy unit in a hospital. Photo credit: Thomas Hecker/Shutterstock.com Radioactive isotopes have a very niche use in medicin...
Some problems require ingenious solutions. The rotary jail was not one of them. Designed by two American engineers, William H. Brown and Be...
You know Bad Luck Brian. Now let me tell you about Hard-Luck Scheele. Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in 1742 in Stralsund, in present day Ge...
The word “skyscraper” was used to describe a tall building for the first time during the construction boom that rippled across many America ...
In the middle of the 19th century, Tasman Peninsula, on the southeast coast of Tasmania, became home to one of Australia's most dreaded ...
Before the Industrial Revolution, the British shipbuilding industry was completely dependent on the countries around the Baltic Sea for timb...
For hundreds of years until the early 20th century, getting medical help for a Chinese woman was tricky. In those times the Chinese placed e...
As far as islands go, Bouvet is pretty insignificant—a speck of rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean over 1,600 kilometers off the coast...
The relocation of the headquarters building of Indiana Bell Telephone Company in Indianapolis remains one of the most fascinating moves in t...
During the middle of the 19th century, London’s antiquarian market was flooded by the sudden arrival of a large number of supposedly mediaev...
Throughout the Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, Venice was divided into many administrative districts and rival factions, who disp...
In the latter half of the 19th century, ships began to transition from wood to iron and many engineers thought the time was ripe to experime...
In the days before anesthesia, the prospect of having to go under the knife was far more horrific than the affliction the procedure was supp...
Topkapi Palace from across the Bosporus, Istanbul. Photo credit: Faraways/Shutterstock.com Situated in the heart of Istanbul and visible f...
