The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples was a depository for every major epidemic starting with the plague of 1685 up through the cholera outbreak of 1836 News Strangeness
16th-century prosthetics designed by Ambroise Paré, considered by some as the father of modern surgery News Featured
Launched on 31st January 1966, Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to transmit photographic data from the Moon’s surface to Earth News Featured
The Codex Mendoza is the first colonial manuscript, painted in 1542 according to a new style influenced by European art News Featured
The experimental “barrel-shaped“ Italian airplane called Stipa-Caproni designed in the 1930s … Featured Self-Propelled
Kodak “box“ camera was designed specifically to use roll film and the photographs were printed in a circular format … Featured
Caroline Shawk Brooks was the first known American sculptor working in the medium of butter … News Self-Propelled
Observation balloons were an early instrument of definitive intelligence collection and also useful in the preparation of accurate battlefield maps News Featured