Most of us are familiar with life-changing Ohio inventions like Thomas Edison's light bulb and the Wright Brothers' airplane.
Even the darkest clouds can have a silver lining. From the Napoleonic Wars to the COVID-19 pandemic, read on as we look back over history's most trying times to reveal 32 revolutionary inventions and ...
Enter the Wrights -- Prophets with some honor -- Teachers and first lessons -- Hitting a wall -- "We now hold all the records!" -- Ambiguous success -- Return to Dayton -- Into the world -- Noon into ...
Reprint. Previously published as: Historical first patents : the first United States patent for many everyday things. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994. https ...