Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Lerner, Josh, and Paul Gompers. The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Dunlop’s invention, the pneumatic tyre, led to an explosion in the demand for rubber, much of which was harvested in Congo. During the 1890s, Roger Casement witnessed the mass abuse and murder ...

If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...