In 1861, Lowe reached out to Professor Joseph Henry, the first Director of the Smithsonian Institution, for funding help.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Freed introduced the term to mainstream US audiences in the early Fifties - Donaldson Collection The name Alan Freed may be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Still adjusting to the later sunrise and one less hour of sleep? Today, Monday, March 9, is the second day after the 2026 spring ...

Gary Anderson was studying architecture at the University of Southern California when he saw the poster. It was 1970, and environmentalism was in the air, along with a broader antiestablishment vibe. ...

Did Pennsylvania-based Hershey Company ruin Reese's Cups? Hershey, which according to data aggregator Voronoi is the fifth-largest chocolate company in the world and third largest in America, is being ...

Hershey's (HSY) iconic Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is at the center of a controversy after Brad Reese, grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor H.B. Reese, publicly accused the company of quietly ...

When you hear the term "invent," your mind probably jumps to a new device or an upgrade to an existing one — kind of like the stuff you see at the Consumer Electronics Show. However, every now and ...

The 1960s were a turning point for American food culture. Convenience foods exploded, fast food chains expanded nationwide, and snack companies became household names. It was a decade of ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

The thermometer doesn't always tell us how cold it feels outside. An Erie man came up with a formula that does. Wind chill, or how cold it actually feels based on the combined intensity of cold and ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...