The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
Katharine Gibbs in 1911 founded her first secretarial school in Providence after learning the hard way that inherited wealth is an uncertain...
When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death “long...
A powerful Massachusetts politician in 1845 learned the hard way not to mess with the mill girls – and especially not with...
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...