George Westinghouse was a natural inventor and tinkerer whose work literally helped illuminate the world at the end of the ...

In the 19th Century, a handful of scientists were gripped with a strange obsession – that electricity might be harnessed to make plants grow better. Could they have been on to something?

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Toward the end of the 19th century, electromagnetism became popular ... including this Davis & Kidder’s Patent Magneto-Electric Machine. This device was marketed and sold to doctors and ...

Mr. Azhar is an investor and the founder of “Exponential View,” a podcast and newsletter on technology. Whatever you hear about the United States as a fading power, it is ahead in the race to ...

New York City had a horse problem in the last 19th-century ... going on to drive the next American century. But electric cars would make a comeback. When 25 all-electric taxis began operation ...