Invented in the late 19th century as a means to contain cattle in the American West, barbed wire soon found military applications. Bettmann / Corbis Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in ...

Since Charles Darwin sketched out evolution’s process 150 years ago, a landslide of data has swept scientists into a more detailed understanding of how life’s variety emerged. In Life Ascending, Lane, ...

Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun–with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel–is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don’t blame you. But, trust me, you don’t know ...

Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in France and Spain adopted the practice of attaching knives to their muskets when hunting dangerous game, such as wild boar. The hunters particularly ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Oct. 1, 2012) -- Four more Picatinny Arsenal products have been added to the 2011 list of inventions chosen by Soldiers to be named "Army Greatest Inventions." Announced by ...

The popular toy was reportedly invented in 1905 when maids at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs presented a small bear made out of scraps of material to President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, who ...