Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women ...

At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...

Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met ...

George F. Green (1832-1892), a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich., invented the first pneumatic dental drill operated by means of compressed air. This example has an “E. R. E. Carpenter / Sole Agent / ...

People with disabilities and ideas related to disability are everywhere in American history. Just as ethnicity and race are not Either/Or rigid classifications, neither is disability. A person is not ...

Half-Gunter surveyor’s chain with fifty links that measure 33 feet overall. The inscription on one handle reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER Co NEW YORK 7780C." That on the other reads "TESTED K. & E. 33 FT.

Benjamin Franklin's remarkable scientific accomplishments were, in part, enabled by slavery, pervasive in the British colonies both North and South. He chose to take advantage of that system. His ...