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 ...

Union Pacific Railroad celebrated Presidents Day with the unveiling of its newest commemorative locomotive honoring President Abraham Lincoln, who created the railroad and connected the nation through ...

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

Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

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 ...

Union Pacific Railroad is celebrating Presidents Day with the unveiling of its newest commemorative locomotive honoring ...

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 ...