American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

*The ABC’s of African American Inventions is a recently released children’s book by Kenneth R. McClelland. This fun and informative book can be used for home schooling; in traditional classroom ...

A lot of the things we rely on every day didn't come out of some modern lab. Nope, they've been around for hundreds or even thousands of years, and they were first made by Native peoples across the ...

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