Here features the invention of the La-Z-Boy as one of the cultural events that happens in the film's single location, but it ...

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 ...

James Goodfellow invented the automated cash machine but received just a £10 bonus The world's first ATM was unveiled 50 years ago today but the inventor of the bank cash machine has been a ...

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 ...

But, believe it or not, waterbeds weren't actually invented to make bedtime bouncier. They were intended to help people get better sleep. Waterbeds, as we know them, were invented in 1968 ...

Chef Ludo Lefebvre is a world-renowned chef and currently one of the most influential members of the food scene in Los Angeles. He trained in France for 12 years with some of the great masters of ...

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 ...

In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

He's also an entrepreneur. Since 2010, Bangalore-based Dr Chaturvedi, has co-invented 18 medical devices to help address inefficiencies he's spotted in the Indian healthcare system. And he's part ...

The McDonald's Happy Meal has delighted children for nearly half a century, but its origins are often debated. Among three ...

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 ...

Who invented Bitcoin? Filmmaker Cullen Hoback tries to solve the enduring Satoshi Nakamoto mystery in his HBO documentary 'Money Electric.' ...