The Vigiles were Rome’s own firefighters, in charge of reducing fire hazards in the city, as well as street crime.

Back in ancient times, clothes were merely used as protection ... feature of a perforated hole to pull the thread through. The invention of eyed needles suggests that more complex clothing was ...

Candles were first mentioned in Biblical times, as early as the tenth century BCE. These early candles were made of wicks stuck into containers filled with a flammable material. The first dipped ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the world. The rest of the time, he tried thousands of other things with only one fault—that they would never work.

The invention of the shaduf was very important ... in the East caused the river levels to rise downstream. In Ancient Egyptian times, most years, the river then flooded onto the land surrounding ...