The 1800s were a time of great discovery, but also deep misunderstanding. Long before science caught up with superstition, people held on to odd beliefs that shaped their daily lives. Strange medical ...

There is plenty of pre-Internet stuff on the Internet, but Tweets of Old takes it to a new level — the really old stuff. Culled from late 19th and early 20th century headlines and brief newspaper ...

The late 19th and early 20th centuries were full of inventions such as this--the "Pinkert Navigating Tricycle," which was meant to be used on water. Scientific American As billions of people around ...

Color photography didn’t become more widely available until the 1930s, and photography in general wasn’t all that common until the late 1800s. Because of their obsolete nature, colorized photos from ...