The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has accepted the donation of the papers of the late inventor Jerome H.

Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met ...

Hanger-type sword of forged steel with grooved blade. Grip of green-dyed ivory with silver strip decoration. Leather scabbard with silver trim. Specific History George Washington wore this simple ...

In 1620 an English mathematician and astronomer named Edmund Gunter described a surveyor's chain with 100 links, measuring 66 feet (22 yards or 4 poles) overall. By this design, one square chain ...

At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...

In the mid 1800s, after being cleaned and stretched, beaver skins were transformed into beaver pelts such as this one. Dark brown in color, this beaver pelt is rather large—almost two feet in diameter ...

Signet ring worn by Tom Selleck in the role of Thomas Sullivan Magnum on the television series Magnum P.I. The ring is gold, with a gold Cross of Lorraine (double barred cross) inlaid on a black oval ...

People with disabilities and ideas related to disability are everywhere in American history. Just as ethnicity and race are not Either/Or rigid classifications, neither is disability. A person is not ...

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: The delicious flavor of this safe and efficient dentrifice makes it easy to form the important habit of brushing the teeth ...

Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women ...

A label on this electric sterilizer reads “RENWAL / 120 VOLTS A. C. ONLY / STARTS 5 AMP. / RUNS 2 AMP. / STERILIZER No. 5 / PROTECTED BY US PATENTS / 2158692 / 2158698 / 223023[?] / 2230245 / ELECTRIC ...

While the African American blacksmith and former slave Lewis Temple did not invent the harpoon toggle, his invention made it better. The first barb at the tip of the toggle iron was designed to ...