Bowl of chocolate covered raisins on a brown cloth - BeataGFX/Shutterstock Raisinets are the perfect movie theater snack. For those who've never tried them, they're a plump raisin covered in chocolate ...
The decade that kicked off the 20th Century was responsible for two inventions that helped define the next 100 years. The airplane and the radio set the planet on a course to becoming truly a global ...
"This catalog is published to accompany the exhibition Cocktail Culture: Ritual and Invention in American Fashion, 1920-1980, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, ...
From 1790 to 1853, the rate of invention was very low, as the U.S. economy was dominated by agriculture. Yet, patenting exploded in the Industrial Revolution starting in the mid 19th Century and ...
The period around World War II was a lull in EV development. But it still had fascinating experiments that feel relevant ...
Her Mother Did Not Like to Have Her Learn to Work: Disability, Family, and the Spectrum of Productivity, 1840s-1870s -- He Had No Home but the County Poor House: Family Incapacity, Charity Policy, ...
All Backbytes readers will be heading down to the British Library's exhibition of weird inventions, and clustering round the "Plus Fours Routefinder" to gawp at the world's first sat nav. Albeit ...