Whalebacks were invented and designed by Capt. Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), a Scottish immigrant and industrialist.

Henry Ford's Quadricycle was notable in its own right, but Charles Brady King drove his own horseless carriage through the ...

Henry Ford's Quadricycle was notable in its own right, but Charles Brady King drove his own horseless carriage in Detroit first.

Perhaps the fair’s most pioneering display was found in Machinery Hall, showcasing American inventions ... at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

An invention of George Washington Gale Ferris for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, AKA, the World's Fair in Chicago. To get to the bottom of this history mystery, we head up the road and across the ...

Sixty years have passed since the opening of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair ... the telephone. In 1893 Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse’s alternating current powered Chicago’s World ...

World’s Fair visitors walk around ... introduced the telephone. In 1893 Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse’s alternating current powered Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition leading to the ...

Inventions that glimpsed ... World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where electricity was first displayed. Some even rank the 1939 World’s Fair ahead of it. Mobile phone technology ...

World Expos, or World’s Fairs as some are known, have celebrated some of the major inventions of their ... engine and IMAX. The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was the backdrop to one of the ...

His careful, conciliatory address foreshadowed what he would say before another massive audience in Atlanta in 1895, insisting, “All the Negro asks of the world of labor is a fair chance.” ...

Loki production designer Kasra Farahani has detailed how the Disney+ series’ production team recreated the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for Victor Timely’s (Jonathan Majors) on-screen debut.