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The courtroom was dead silent when Alexander Graham Bell, a young teacher for deaf-mute children, was put under oath. It was the spring of 1879, and in New York, one of history's greatest lawsuits over patent rights was entering its decisive stage.

From Asia to Europe, from Africa to South America, from the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans to the Caribbean: shipping lines connect the world of today. Trading volumes keeps growing steadily, and along with it, so does the size of ships. The latest ...

In London, the heart of the British Empire, a contraption was patented on the 5th of January, 1769, that would change the world like no other device before or after. An ingenious Scotsman by the name of James Watt had developed the pre-modern ...

It was a muggy night in the early summer of 1878. Under the veil of utmost secrecy, a small, handpicked group of men met in the private residence of oil producer Byron Benson in Titusville, Pennsylvania. That night, the fate of the entire nation -