Before the age of the modern automobile, an inventor in Racine named Reverend Dr. John Wesley Carhart designed and operated ...

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Plain common sense teaches any man that it is foolishness itself to prefer an invention merely because it is new, and deride another merely because it is old. We are also advocates of all that is ...

With the invention of the jet engine so far in the past, one could be forgiven for thinking that the technology has long been mastered around the world. However, recent reports show that’s not ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile ... Heron did not consider this invention being useful for ...

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He developed this idea in 1765 to include a separate condenser making the engine more powerful, portable and efficient. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip would be ...

In 1941 the first flight (of 17 minutes) with a jet engine heralded the beginning of the jet age. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip would be ideally suited to showing ...