Lookback: First automobile ever built found in Spring Lake shed
Whatever is left of the carriage may still be in Spring Lake, experts say.
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Build Group Breaks Ground on First Solumbria Project
The San Francisco based design/build contractor to install the industry’s first adaptable array system at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Martinez, California.San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 Build Group, Inc. (http://www.buildgc.com) today announced that the company has broken ground on .504 MW of solar parking lot canopy structure for long time client REC Solar, Inc. at the Veterans ...
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The world's first mobile? How an Ohio inventor was having conversations in his car in 1920
Philadelphia inventor W W McFarlane created a telephone from a 'transceiver' box and three sections of stovepipe in 1920, which worked in cars at a distance of 500 yards.
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8 Inventions That Made Our Lives Easier
These inventions in the fields of finance, healthcare, technology, food and energy have greatly improved our standard of living.
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The EPA has finally realized that automakers have done their own successful science -- for decades.
To the average reader, one story McClatchy published on January 11 would seem like a minor one, with no "hot buttons" to keep it in circulation. The story concerned nothing more serious than the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency had agreed to allow Anchorage, Alaska, to drop its vehicle emissions-testing program, first put in place in 1985. That's when, according to the article ...
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PHOTOS: World's best innovations in 50 years
Past 50 years have seen several path-breaking innovations.
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In Beetle's creation story, a plot twist
The tale is intriguing: A Jewish engineer and journalist, whose designs and published work in the'30s laid out the basics for the Volkswagen Beetle championed by Hitler, was arrested, chased from Germany and nearly airbrushed out of history.
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Leaders from Nissan, GE, Google and NHTSA Highlight List of Speakers at SAE 2012 World Congress
Contact: Shawn Andreassi of SAE International, +1-1-724-772-8522, pr@sae.org
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Eagle Scout restores World War II cannon in Exeter
EXETER — Stephen Tatarczuk didn't know George Leonard Smith.
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Tim Grobaty: On Wikipedia-free day, facts run riot
IMAGINE OUR LIFE WITHOUT FREE KNOWLEDGE: When our great-great-grandfather Peter Grosbeti immigrated to America from Switzerland in 1830, the Civil War, and maybe even the War of 1812, and almost certainly the 100 Year War were still raging.
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