Over 160 years ago on Feb. 13, 1861, Col. Bernard J.D. Irwin, an assistant Army surgeon, performed the very first action to ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Clashes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed a 19-year-old Palestinian-American man late Wednesday night, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry said Nasrallah ...

LONDON (AP) — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British prince who was stripped of his royal titles because of his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday on ...

Larry Sprinkle tells us about how the first patent for a phonograph was granted to Thomas Edison on Feb. 19, 1878.

February 19 marks significant US historical events. In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered Japanese-American internment. The ...

Today is Thursday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2026. There are 315 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1942, during ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

A fter more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only begotten but continuously fathered the electrical era, Thomas Alva Edison believes that we have only ...

Today, we celebrate our Nation’s most prolific inventor and a man who never stopped pushing the spirit of American innovation: the legendary Thomas ...

In David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film (Knopf 1994), Thomas Edison is a “grinch” who “always seemed grim, suspicious, and costive…. There’s an eerie contradiction between his own ...

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great promise for ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS ...