Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...
October 21 has been a day marked by significant events that have shaped our world across centuries and continents.Turning ...
Amid Louisville’s modern cityscape, the Brennan House at 631 South 5th Street offers a historic nineteenth-century retreat. Its most noted owner, Thomas Brennan (1839–1914), was an inventor and ...
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Who Actually Invented The Lightbulb?
Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...
Jefferson's tale of an encounter with a stranger sparked a saying that became pretty popular in the 19th century.
On Feb. 24, 1926, 79-year-old Thomas Alva Edison stepped up to the plate at the Philadelphia Athletics' spring training camp in Fort Myers and, after missing his first swing, rapped a major-league ...
Suzanne Blake is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on consumer and social trends, spanning from retail to restaurants and beyond. She is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and ...
Dr. Thomas Fogarty speaks in clipped sentences. His no-nonsense medical training has equipped him to be economical with his time, focused when solving problems and to the point when engaged in ...
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