Category: History

This 1912 article about a “new” sort of vehicle covers an invention that appears to be almost like something out of a video game and…

Long before people knew that asbestos could cause malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, they made the craziest stuff with it. Since it was fireproof, a Philadelphia tailor…

As television has dusted off the mystifying King Tutankhamen for the mini-series Tut (2015), they have once again muddied the waters of fact and fiction….

Time is still being explored by scientists: our perception of time and the effects of time. People have always tried to measure time, capture time,…

Who knew that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in asbestos cloth to help preserve the bodies? Absolutely fascinating stuff in this article, published in 1896, about…

Here is a 1912 article about a young man who invented a rat trap. The farm boy had no formal training and had never been…

We thought asbestos was the greatest thing. It doesn’t burn and it had a zillion commercial uses. There was money in asbestos, and people were…

Welcome to the land of strange science, where the “modern” men of 1922 came up with ideas that would normally be reserved for science fiction…

The following article on testing diamonds was published in 1905 and discusses the methods regular people could use to try and figure out if a…

Where was the origin of men? Most of us subscribe to the theory that mankind originated in Africa, possibly parts of Asia. Some people believe…