This year marks the 10th anniversary of the National Museum of American History’s Smithsonian Food History Gala and the ...

In 1620 an English mathematician and astronomer named Edmund Gunter described a surveyor's chain with 100 links, measuring 66 feet (22 yards or 4 poles) overall. By this design, one square chain ...

Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met ...

At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...

A label on this electric sterilizer reads “RENWAL / 120 VOLTS A. C. ONLY / STARTS 5 AMP. / RUNS 2 AMP. / STERILIZER No. 5 / PROTECTED BY US PATENTS / 2158692 / 2158698 / 223023[?] / 2230245 / ELECTRIC ...

In 1896, William McKinley became the Republican presidential nominee in the midst of an economic crisis that had been going on for three years. In response, one of his campaign slogans was a “full ...

This photograph shows Lucy Branham with a banner protesting the treatment of suffrage leader Alice Paul. In January 1917, discouraged by President Wilson’s continued opposition to the suffrage ...

While the African American blacksmith and former slave Lewis Temple did not invent the harpoon toggle, his invention made it better. The first barb at the tip of the toggle iron was designed to ...

Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women ...

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: The delicious flavor of this safe and efficient dentrifice makes it easy to form the important habit of brushing the teeth ...

George F. Green (1832-1892), a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich., invented the first pneumatic dental drill operated by means of compressed air. This example has an “E. R. E. Carpenter / Sole Agent / ...

People with disabilities and ideas related to disability are everywhere in American history. Just as ethnicity and race are not Either/Or rigid classifications, neither is disability. A person is not ...