It’s one of many historical inventions that were way ahead ... so we took a deep dive through the passage of time to find out. From flying cars to ancient earthquake detectors to automated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...