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 ...

The United States of America elected its first president in 1789. President Donald Trump was elected as the nation's 47th ...

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 ...

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

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

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.

Abraham Lincoln ... would get in Cincinnati. Lincoln had been in the Queen City twice before. His first visit in 1855, when he was a lawyer serving as co-counsel on a patent infringement case ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death. By Hilarie M. Sheets Scott Kerr ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

However, her husband, Abraham Williams, has maintained a relatively low profile despite his strong support for her career. Williams is a filmmaker known for his work on documentaries, features ...

In a move to flesh out its Grand Touring range of plug-in hybrids, Lincoln has implanted the Corsair luxury compact SUV with a gas-electric propulsion system. The new Corsair Grand Touring joins ...