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A new documentary film tells the story of Ralph Teetor, whose vision for innovation produced dozens of inventions.
The nation that invented the computer lost its lead by discarding its most plentiful supply of trained technologists: women. This article discusses why failure narratives are as important to ...
Science How Was the Wheel Invented? Computer Simulations Reveal Its Unlikely Birth Nearly 6,000 Years Ago The wheel changed the course of history for all of humanity. But its invention is shrouded in ...
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The legendary businessman behind the most iconic drink ball of Central New York, has passed away at the age of 90. J. Kemper, who passed away on June 18th just weeks shy of his 91st birthday, was a ...
A new theory suggests the wheel may have been invented not in Mesopotamia, but by copper miners in what is now Hungary nearly 6,000 years ago.
The history of the wheel is one of many quiet revolutions, says Dr Kai A James from Georgia Institute of Technology.
In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.
The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?
Just like the evolution of species, the wheel emerged gradually from an accumulation of small improvements.