Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

The course of American history has been changed by countless inventions, from the tiny things that made everyday life different to huge landmark projects that made history. To compile a list of 100 ...

What Americans think is best about the US as it turns 250 (including a bunch of stuff invented elsewhere) - Fewer than half ...

Hush-a-bye, baby, in the tree top -- "The play's the thing" -- The sporting life -- That's entertainment! -- There's no place like home -- Food, glorious food -- Here's health -- The open road -- The ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. The 1925 writer helpfully explains what scientists still think is behind these ...