The electric vehicle might seem like a very modern invention, but is actually as old as automobile itself. It first appeared in the autumn o...
On the morning of March 23, 1849, a wooden box was loaded onto a wagon in Richmond, Virginia. It was an ordinary-looking package, roughly th...
In 19th-century Munich, a woman with no formal banking experience began promising ordinary people extraordinary returns on their savings. Wo...
On a cold April morning in 1875, three men ascended into the sky above Paris in a balloon, hoping to push the boundaries of human flight. Th...
On October 31, 1926, Toronto lawyer and millionaire Charles Vance Millar died suddenly of a heart attack. He left behind no wife, no childre...
For a few hours on a December day in 1962, two men floated at the edge of space beneath a giant balloon, peering into the heavens through a ...
When Douglas Corrigan climbed out of his weather-beaten Curtiss Robin at Baldonnel Airfield near Dublin on 18 July 1938, he claimed to have ...
In July 1952, reports of a railway disaster in Poland began circulating in the Western media. According to these reports, a Soviet military ...
During the early 1860s, reports of violent robberies known as garrottings filled British newspapers. Victims were said to be attacked from b...
On June 21, 1913, a tiny woman weighing barely 80 pounds climbed into an airplane over Los Angeles and prepared to do something no woman had...
