They really pioneered the practice of aeronautical engineering we see today." Who invented the first successful airplane depends on how people define an aircraft, Paone said. Wilbur and Orville ...

Craig Wright, the man who claims he invented bitcoin and has been filing lawsuits asserting intellectual property rights, was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday for committing contempt of court.

The Romans ran with the concept and invented Harpastum, which was even more brutal. The ancients weren’t the only ones who enjoyed soccer with a slice of brutality. In the Middle Ages ...

You can hear the first e-mail attachment ever sent on Borenstein's site here. It's an audio file of Borenstein and his barber shop quartet singing about the glory of the newly invented MIME. After ...

Running is one of the most popular sports in modern times, with many of us running regularly to keep fit, socialise, be part of a community, compete and chase personal bests. But when did running ...

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 ...

German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press sometime between 1440 and 1450. Key to its development was the hand mold, a new molding technique that enabled the rapid creation of ...

Also on the map is the hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1955 and first launched four years later on the the Isle of Wight. In addition, there's Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting ...