The motorcycle engine has come a long way from its auspicious 19th-century beginnings, evolving over the years to include ...

The Grosvenor House Museum isn’t just any old building with dusty artifacts – it’s a living, breathing testament to the 19th ...

NORWOOD, Ohio (WXIX) - Fire roared through a 19th-century home under renovation in Norwood early Thursday, causing the roof to collapse. The house at Hudson and Floral avenues has been vacant ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (1837 - never fully built ... These modern concerns bear a striking resemblance to Butler's 19th-century call for pausing mechanical progress.

A lack of rainfall helped preserve beds of sodium nitrate, or saltpeter. In the early 19th century, Europeans on the hunt for saltpeter to use in gunpowder turned their attention to the desert.

However, his legacy extends far beyond science. In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking. British imperialism was at its zenith, and the Industrial Revolution was fueling a ...

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

“This piece is really unique in that it is very rare to find 19th Century art that beautifully portrays Black people. The peacefulness of the scene is also unusual. This man is calmly fishing by ...

Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists. Reflecting the ...

A ride around the Suffolk Lanes in a LIFU steam car. Mrs. R.G. Pratt as co-driver with the former owner, Mr. McHodson, as driver. The turn of the century “Lifu” or ... description of one of these cars ...

Nonetheless, even in the highly racialized political environment of the late 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed an expansive view of birthright citizenship. In an 1898 ruling ...