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 ...

Julio Montaner literally caused thousands of AIDS patients to rise from their death beds You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Maker Nation ...

James Goodfellow invented the automated cash machine but received just a £10 bonus The world's first ATM was unveiled 50 years ago today but the inventor of the bank cash machine has been a ...

He's also an entrepreneur. Since 2010, Bangalore-based Dr Chaturvedi, has co-invented 18 medical devices to help address inefficiencies he's spotted in the Indian healthcare system. And he's part ...

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 ...

In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

A businessman who founded a chain of curry restaurants and is said to have invented the 'hanging naan' has died aged 56. Shabir Hussain founded Akbar's restaurant in Bradford in 1995, before later ...

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

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No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Doug Gollan covers private aviation and the business of luxury travel. Adam Kidan was aboard his Gulfstream private jet in 2021, headed from Los Angeles to the East Coast, when the pilot told him ...