J.W. Foster and Sons was set up in 1895 by his grandfather Joseph William Foster, evolving into one of the earliest mass ...
Australia and New Zealand have a shared history of tussling over things, but never has the Hills Hoist been called into ...
Computing revolutionized most aspects of 21st century life, including language, with new and repurposed terms becoming the ...
Opinion

Chance discoveries

Not every wonderful breakthrough in science and technology was created intentionally. A chance discovery or invention is an unexpected realization and insight that occurs without direct intention.
If there’s one thing the car industry does best, it’s recycling bad ideas until they become billion-dollar trends. The ...
Learn how writers enrich a language's expressive power, and why a language's vitality depends on creativity, not a dictionary's size.
One hundred years ago, John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first clear TV image:  the unsettling grin of Stooky Bill.
Recently, Securities Star reported that Anhui Transportation Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd. (stock code: 603357) has successfully obtained a new invention patent titled "Method for ...
The two phrases might have the same causes and cures, which is why business leaders still need to pay attention to the newer ...
Professor Mark Mazower guides readers through a history that seeks to illuminate rather than to blame.
A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo. Negative hands were often made using ...