A teacher in Galicia, Spain, Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the first mechanical book way back in 1949. She was looking for a way to allow her students to carry fewer books to and from classes ...

The favorite dish of the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host, cioppino — invented by Italian fishermen in San Francisco in the late 1800s — is served on weekends year-round and daily in Dungeness ...

Soap has a pretty simple formula and a long history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's nothing quite like the ...

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 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 ...