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?

In this episode, we embark on a thrilling adventure to uncover the secrets of an abandoned 19th-century farmhouse that once belonged to the enigmatic Crowley family. Immerse yourself in the life ...

There is little doubt that electric vehicles (EVs) will have a significant place in the future, but what's less known is that they also had a place in the past. During the 19th century ...

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 ...

Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay more than a hundred years ago, but only a few still exist — one happens to be in Jay Leno’s garage.

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 ...

Hydropower became an electricity source in the late 19th century, a few decades after British-American engineer James Francis developed the first modern water turbine. In 1882, the world’s first ...

but electricity and instantaneous communication created the real-time international market. The impact on the economy of late 19th-century Australia was profound. No longer did colonial sheep ...