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A round medal that looks like a coin, embossed with Morgan’s portrait and the words Garrett A. Morgan, Inventor, 1877–1963

I would like to share the fascinating story of arguably one of the most famous, prolific, and well-documented African American inventors, Garrett A...

Gold pocket watch with an elaborate face, with letters A to Z and numbers 1 to 24

Like many Americans, I'm traveling across time zones for the holidays, going to California to celebrate Christmas with family and then flying back to...

I am old enough to remember when roads in rural Kewaunee County, WI still were dirt and gravel (with an occasional layer of oil). As a child visiting...

NASCAR racers take a turn around the track.

NASCAR racing legend Dale Earnhardt was on turn three of the final lap of the 2001 season-opening Daytona 500 when Sterling Marlin’s car came in...

A glass paperweight featuring Albert A. Pope (1843-1909), Hartford bicycle manufacturer and leader of the American “good roads” movement, about 1890s

For the past several years now, I’ve been studying the emergence of precision metalworking industries and the birth of mass production in 19th-century...

Box Chronometer without Case circa 1825

It may not seem obvious, but if you want to know where you are, you need an accurate clock. This was true in the 18th century, when mariners first...

"If you want to make an improvement or an innovation or an invention, the place to look is in yourself," Mike Augspurger told students at the Lemelson...