Nicolas Appert (c1750 – 1841) was a chef, confectioner and distiller when the French Revolution broke out. During the year of 1795, the…
In 1910, Mare Samuella Cromer, a rural schoolteacher in South Carolina, organized a girl’s tomato club so females aged 9 to 20 could…
The Map of Hell (in Italian La Mappa dell’Inferno ) by Botticelli – regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dell’Inferno – …
Société Kellner was a French luxury coachbuilder run by Georges Kellner. During World War I, the company turned to producing SPAD VII, S.XI, and…
In the 1930s, Japanese aviation began to make strides toward closing the technological gap with the Western World. In 1938, the Aeronautical Research…
In the early 1900s, John Walter Christie built a series of front-wheel drive automobiles; each had its inline, four-cylinder engine mounted transversely between the…
Ab (David Abbott) Jenkins was a devout Mormon who did not drink or smoke. He was interested in pushing endurance records beyond what…
On 16 March 1926, Henry O’Neil de Hane Segrave blasted down Ainsdale Beach at Southport, England and set a new Land Speed Record…
As World War II started to gain momentum and become a global conflict, Australia realized that it was in a precarious position. In…
One of the oddest Grand Prix race cars ever built was the 1935 Monaco Trossi. Built by Augusto Camillo Pietro Monaco and funded…