United States patent number 6,469 is for "buoying vessels over shoals." Granted on May 22, 1849, the concept involves equipping large boats with "india-rubber cloth, or another suitable waterproof ...

Massachusetts is home to the oldest drum company in the United States and one of the oldest in the world. Noble and Cooley in ...

Lincoln was sailing up the Great Lakes on his way home from Congress in 1848 when he witnessed another steamer that was aground. The scene led Lincoln to develop an invention to float ships off shoals ...

Cymbal-maker Zildjian has entered the electronic drum kit space, while Noble & Cooley is the oldest drum maker in the U.S.

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

When we think of the most legendary presidents our nation has had, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

4. Lincoln was a huge animal lover and had tons of them. Dogs, cats, horses, and even goats were no strangers to Abe. It's ...

Coin values fluctuate, but it's worth checking your coin jars for this rare penny. Who knows? You could be a millionaire.

Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 to celebrate accomplishments of Black people who were called negroes at ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Five score and 10 years ago, a silent film about former President Abraham Lincoln was made and lost — thought never to be seen again — until now. An intern for the Historic Films Archive on Long ...