Today’s makers of electric cars should tip their hats to Thomas Davenport of Forest Dale in Central Vermont. He made the first...
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
Seeing Boston By Streetcar stands as one of the first films of the city ever made. It offers today’s viewer a fascinating glimpse...
In 1946, the U.S. Navy considered Grace Hopper too old to be an officer. Thirty-seven years later, President Ronald Reagan promoted her...
On Dec. 7, 1930, what is believed to be the world’s first TV commercial aired from a primitive television station on Brookline...
In 1877, a Providence mom named Helen Metcalf persuaded her women’s club to spend money left over from a fair to found...