Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca quipu was a complex system of knotted cords, encoded numerical records and possibly even a full logosyllabic language. New research ...

It’s easy to take these mainstays for granted.

Generations of children have learned how pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail, not in textbooks but on a video game with ...

In 1948, mathematician and Gaylord native Claude Shannon theorized that information could be transmitted using ones and zeros ...

The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled marking the creation of a computer in 1949 which set the standards for how today's computers ...

On July 31, 1790, President George Washington affixed his elegant signature to a single piece of parchment. The short ...

This is a state where people do a lot and have done a lot,” Healey said. “They create stuff, they make stuff. We invented the ...

The Bear's final season shifted away from celebrity cameos in favor of focusing on the original cast and their character ...

The Simulmatics Corporation opened for business on February 18, 1959, in an office rented by Edward L. Greenfield, the company’s thirty-one-year-old president, on an upper floor of a building at the ...