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From Bubble Wrap to the implantable pacemaker, these overlooked American inventions left a lasting global impact.

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A crowd of travelers on the station platform at Stratton, Colorado in 1919. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Regional History and Genealogy, Pikes Peak Library District, 102-11924. In 1900, an ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Long before cell phones, texting, and private landlines, many Americans communicated through a system known as the telephone party line. For much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Andrew S. Curran is the author of a new book on face that looks at 13 Enlightenment thinkers, including Thomas Jefferson, and Haiti. The book is “Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race.” ...

In this video, we explore 20 inventions from the last century that range from pure genius to downright unbelievable. Some were ahead of their time. Others were strange solutions to problems most ...