We explore twenty remarkable inventions from the early 1900s, a period when bold ideas pushed the limits of technology and ...

New Bedford Fire Chief Edward F. Dahill changed the way fire fighters fight fires. Dahill dedicated 59 years of service to the department from 1888 to 1947, and left behind an invention that made an ...

As the world welcomed in the 1900s, Italian Guglielmo Marconi successfully sent the first transoceanic radio transmission message. It was only a single Morse Code letter, "S," but it marked the ...

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Remember, in the 1900s, when movies often created scenes with inventions such as a television in which the audience can smell what was displayed? Well, in Japan, Haruka Matsukara and his team from ...

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