In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail and asylums. W.B. was “a quiet and useful man,” the doctor wrote ...

Hard hats are the team headgear of working-class America — the people who built the United States with their bare hands. The people who still build the USA today. Tip your safety cap to Edward W ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women of history the exposure they deserve. This week, we’re paying tribute to Christina Jenkins – the Fifties hair-styling innovator who gave ...

Dancing With the Stars (DWTS), which launched in 2005, is an Emmy-winning ballroom competition where celebrities are paired with professional dancers and face weekly eliminations based on expert ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...

DANCING WITH THE STARS - "Episode 3302" - Oscars® Night" Hollywood glitz meets ballroom glamour ... [+] when all 13 couples grace the stage with dazzling performances, dancing to iconic songs ...

She's also a great-granddaughter of the hard-hat inventor. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INVENTED THE ELECTRIC GUITAR AND INSPIRED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL "They are the people building our roads, bridges and ...