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Inventions are wonderful things. They improve the quality of life for people. By protecting inventor's inventions, governments encourage further creativity.

A bang, novelty, corny joke and a paper hat, Christmas crackers today are vastly different from the original crackers of the 1800s.

Red Cross founder Clara Barton had a surprising and illicit love affair with a married colonel during the Civil War.

'Strawjet' is the History Channel's top global invention in 2006. The device produces mats for durable, low-cost building panels from wheat, flax and sunflower straw.

A brief look at the life and career of Frederick Upham Adams who became known as one of the most ingenious designers of machinery in the West.

Twentieth century icon, Albert Einstein, found himself the center of adulation and controversy, all because he came up with a not-so-simple little formula called E=MC².

Mary Kies, the first woman issued a U.S. patent, was granted the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.

While the early history of the sewing machine is somewhat cloudy, its later pathway is much clearer. Many people were involved in fully developing the modern machine.

Albert Einstein's first wife was a genius in her own right who may have helped her husband create the foundation for his famous theory of relativity.

Common threads that appear in several Charles Dickens books reveal the author's preoccupations and highlight his social commentary.

While the world rightly perceives Albert Einstein as having been a brilliant physicist, the mathematics of General Relativity were so difficult as to be beyond even him.

In addition to his work on relativity in 1905, Einstein published an explanation for the photoelectric effect that earned him the 1921 Nobel Prize.

Tesla, the legend of popular culture, inventor of AC current, grandfather of radio, radar and MRIs, invented and tested the world's first remote control weapon in 1898.

Although vulcanized rubber wasn't officially patented until the 1840s, rubber balls were an important part of Mesoamerican culture, religion and yes, sports, by 1600 B.C.

Some aspects of novel writing require research. Knowing where to look and ensuring the information is correct is crucial for authenticity.

The first television image was transmitted in 1927, but the opening of "The Farnsworth Invention" on Broadway in 2007 revived the bitter old debate about TV's inventor.

He was one of the greatest scientists in world history, and was universally recognized for his playful sense of humor, commitment to world peace, and his genius.

Brief biography of Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss-American mathematical physicist famous for Theory of Relativity with equation E=MC²

Some who undergo cosmetic eye color changing surgery allege severe complications from the popular procedure.

Clara Barton was born in 1821.Though she is remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross, it was during the US Civil War that her humanitarian work began.