The Ashton Valve company was born out of Henry G. Ashton’s desire to make boiler rooms a safer working environment. In its...
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
The 1900 U.S. Senate election in Vermont pitted Gov. William Dillingham against Congressman and Gen. William Grout. As the race got nastier,...
Rufus Porter left his mark on early New England homes with stencils on their walls and Scientific American on the coffee table....
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
Why the Beatles dedicated a film to Elias Howe is a bit of a mystery, but some of the more preposterous explanations actually...