In 1921, John Augustus Larson, a medical student and police officer in Berkeley, California invented a machine to help detectives determine if someone was telling the truth – or lying. He called it – the...
In 1962, when a quick and accurate means of communication was needed between two of the world’s greatest superpowers, the Moscow-Washington hotline was created. Since then the technology used to facilitate this line of communication has changed over...
Did you know that when the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, lots of Americans thought it was a bad idea? That’s why Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers – to convince the American people that...
During one of the deadliest pandemics in human history – The Spanish Influenza – the then San Francisco Mayor singed The Mask Ordinance – the first order requiring the wearing of face masks in public in the United...
