Articles Containing Tag: inventions

From the automobile and the airplane to antibiotics and air conditioning, countless inventions have improved life around the world. Yet few have had an impact as profound as Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. Gutenberg’s Printing Press In the 15th century, while… Read More

While many of history’s most famous inventions were created more than a century ago, innovation did not stop with the light bulb, telephone, and automobile. Some of the most life-changing ideas were developed over the last few decades in American… Read More

Roughly a decade after the end of the American Revolution, a young Yale graduate by the name of Eli Whitney found himself stranded in Georgia. Unemployed, broke, and desperate to find work, Whitney met Catherine Greene, a local plantation owner… Read More

Orville and Wilbur Wright – most commonly known as the “Wright Brothers” – were the men behind what is arguably one of the greatest inventions of modern history: the airplane. The Ohio brothers successfully flew the first powered and controlled… Read More

“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.” ~ Alexander Smith December 6, 1877: Thomas Edison Makes First Recording on Phonograph There have been a lot of great technological advancements just in the last couple of decades,… Read More

Liberty Nation GenZ recently asked its readers which American invention is the greatest. There’s no doubt the United States has spent a long time on the cutting edge of technology, from Thomas Edison and his lightbulb to today’s Silicon Valley…. Read More

You may know Benjamin Franklin as the face on the one-hundred-dollar bill, or perhaps as one of our Founding Fathers. Or maybe you recognize his name because of his kite experiment, which proved we can get electricity from lightning. But… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our way of life and has disrupted normalcy. Social media is filled with funny memes as people try to make light of the quarantine to get a few laughs during such tough times. And then… Read More