The Petaluma Incubator was awarded a ribbon at the fair, beating out the Axford Incubator manufactured by the National ...

This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

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From crank wheels to battlefield chaos, the journey to the first true machine gun is full of twists.

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

3. Gatling Gun Source:Getty Richard J. Gatling from Indianapolis invented the Gatling gun, one of the U.S.’s first rapid-fire weapons. Created during the Civil War era, this revolutionary invention ...

First computer invented In the early 19th century, the first mechanical computer was invented in India by Charles Babbage.

Aerospace engineer Jack Cover's fascination with science fiction and a career at NASA and other big names in aerospace and defence culminated in the invention of the Taser, transforming modern ...

A genius of gun design, Browning is responsible for dozens of revolutionary firearms, including the M2 machine gun and the Colt 1911. The first Model 1894s were released in, you guessed it, 1894. That ...

Bold as brass Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...