With his close friend John Herschel, son of the famed astronomer ... Babbage talked shop with Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the Wheatstone bridge for measuring electrical resistance; with ...

A leader of resistance to the 1765 Stamp Act, which imposed taxes on colonial ... friends who ceased to be useful (former friend John Collins, too often drunk, was sent off to Barbados with ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard is ...