She's also a great-granddaughter of the hard-hat inventor. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO INVENTED THE ELECTRIC GUITAR AND INSPIRED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL "They are the people building our roads, bridges and ...

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Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women of history the exposure they deserve. This week, we’re paying tribute to Christina Jenkins – the Fifties hair-styling innovator who gave ...

Dancing With the Stars (DWTS), which launched in 2005, is an Emmy-winning ballroom competition where celebrities are paired with professional dancers and face weekly eliminations based on expert ...

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 ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...

The Dancing With the Stars season 33 cast got spooky during Halloween Nightmares Week. Tran, 26, said she was “truly just so grateful” for her DWTS experience after the results were revealed ...

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