In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

Musk is hardly the first inventor to have a complicated persona, though. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and many others have ...

A lot of “American foods” — hamburgers, hot dogs, apple pie — weren’t actually invented in the States. Rather, they were imported from other countries. Americans still have plenty of ...

1840 - Guns begin to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use. In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out. This period ...

In 1998, 2000 and 2005 he was named Goodyear Inventor of the Year. He also received the 2003 Distinguished Science Alumni Award from Purdue. Halasa established the first facilities in Kuwait for the ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

We don’t know whether Europe’s ancient wagon technology was wheeled in from elsewhere or invented independently. But there is another line of evidence that the wheel was established in Europe ...

A new documentary claims to have solved the greatest mystery in cryptocurrency: the true identity of the inventor of Bitcoin. The question has captivated the internet since the digital currency ...

Perhaps there’s a better question than whether it matters who Nakamoto is: How important is it that the inventor of bitcoin remains a mystery? Todd isn’t wrong that prior attempts to unmask ...

Here are seven sports the country has invented...bats at the ready. Curling was invented in Scotland, which has famously icy winters, and has existed there since at least 1511. (A curling stone ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled. Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator. At its core, the argument is ...