From instruments played with water to early electronic devices promoted by the Nazis, we take a look at the surprising history of instruments named after their creators.

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This month marks 80 years since one of the most influential yet underrated inventions burst onto the market in New York on ...

While the Song dynasty saw huge advancements in culture, commerce and technology, it also gave rise to the horrific practice ...

Thinking about strawberries and history, I can’t help but picture the strawberry-picking scene in the early 19th-century ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

Did you know that the term “haunted house” dates back to at least the 18th century, with tales of spectral inhabitants ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on October 31. Check what happened ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...