Inside Switzerland’s 1889 rifle: precision straight-pull engineering revealed.

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an ...

In her new book, Way includes clothing and accessories never photographed for publication, for her readers and to help people ...

Patient memoirs of 19th-century asylums tell the good, the bad, and the ugly from the early days of institutional mental health treatment. Before and after photos show women who were given the rest ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

To learn more about 19th-century America, Stacker compiled a collection of 50 essential images that capture what life was ...

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Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the old year ends in the last seconds ...

Sperm whales have been recorded for the first time headbutting one another, validating what mariners have said since the 19th ...

Upgrades will provide "long-lasting protection", Durham County Council says.

In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of exploring ...

This sprawling agricultural estate in France’s western Loire Valley offers a strikingly handsome 19th-century castle and modern amenities like a nine-hole golf course, a heated pool and a tennis court ...