But it wasn't always that way, especially in the 1800s when daily bread making was ... of today's popular breakfast cereals. Lee's inventions brought well-deserved recognition, eventually earning ...

Editors and reporters in the late 1800s began to make a more conscious effort to bring science into the public sphere. New inventions weren’t just explorations of intellectual curiosities but ...

Inventions like the steam engine and cotton gin accelerated production, feeding a booming job market that was met with immigrants eager to find work. By the mid-to late-1800s, the U.S. economy and ...