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The history of inventions and their consequences.
Apartment living is something we take for granted today, the option for those who can't afford or don't desire a private home. But how did t...
In 1900, there were about 8,000 registered automobiles in the United States. They were a genuine novelty. Those that attempted to go on 'roa...
That string of multi-colored Christmas lights wrapped around your tree (or your house) is far more influential to American history than you...
How much do you know about George Washington Carver, the man born into slavery who became America's most famous botanist in the first half o...
"Over the river and through the woods" into the history of early American cuisine. The first published European cookbooks in the world weren...
Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American in the world by the time of the Revolutionary War, known as a writer, inventor and philosophe...
How much do you know about one of the most famous scientific experiments in American history? In 1752 Benjamin Franklin and his son William...
Benjamin Franklin did more in his first forty years than most people do in an entire lifetime. Had he not played a pivotal role in the creat...
There is something very, very bizarre about a can of soda. How did this sugary, bubbly beverage – dark brown, or neon orange, or grape, or w...
The Black Crook is considered the first-ever Broadway musical, a dizzying, epic-length extravaganza of ballerinas, mechanical sets, lavish c...
The art of tattooing is as old as written language but it would require the contributions of a few 19th century New York tattoo artists -- a...
Imagine if we could hear the voices of Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria or Frederick Douglass? Believe it or not, somebody was making audio r...
Of the tens of thousands of U.S. patents granted in the 19th century, only a small fraction were held by women. One of those women -- Joseph...
The Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla is known as one of the fathers of electricity, the curious genius behind alternating current (AC), the vic...
This year marks the end to the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus and, with it, the end of the traditional American circus. Once at the c...
Robots conjure up thoughts of distant technological landscapes and even apocalyptic scenarios, but the truth is, robots are a very old creat...
In 1907, the professional swimmer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Massachusetts beach for wearing a revealing bathing suit -- a skin-tig...
The harnessing of electricity by the great inventors of the Gilded Age introduced the world to the miracle of light at all hours of the day....
This is the story of the first vaccine, perhaps one of the greatest inventions in modern human history. Starring -- a country doctor with a...
The Pledge of Allegiance feels like an American tradition that traces itself back to the Founding Fathers, but, in fact, it's turning 125 ye...
You may know the story of Alexander Graham Bell and his world famous invention. You may know that Bell made the very first phone call. But d...
American eating habits were transformed in the early 20th century with innovations in freezing and refrigeration, allowing all kinds of food...
Dorothy Catherine Draper is a truly forgotten figure in American history. She was the first woman to ever sit for a photograph -- a daguerro...
01: The first Ferris Wheel was invented to become America's Eiffel Tower, making its grand debut at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. The wh...
A preview of The First, a new podcast series from Greg Young of the Bowery Boys: New York City History, examining the birth of inventions an...