On the eve of 1880, Thomas Edison threw a New Year’s party unlike any before or since. Let there be light!

Folks in Jericho, Vermont thought the Bentley boy was crazy to be out in the snow. Then they saw his photos.

Obsolete, old-fashioned, vinyl records went into history’s dustbin. And then. . .

His arm blown out, his career finished, Tommy John tried the surgery that led to a thousand comebacks.

When his brother had a stroke, Alvin Straight headed across the Plains to see him. On a lawnmower. (As seen in “The Straight Story.”)

The Attic rides Colorado’s narrow gauge RR through mountains and magic.

Fifty years ago, when America needed a lift, an astonishing horse answered the question.

Before his “girls on rocks” became a cliche, Mayfield Parrish charmed America’s children.

Small, cheap, ubiquitous, the transistor — invented 75 years ago — birthed the Modern World.

From burning river to free flowing waters, the Cuyahoga River has come back. “It’s a miracle.”

Fast cameras caught split second action but “Doc” Edgerton’s strobe captured magic.

Human-powered flight was just a dream until the Gossamer Albatross pedaled into the sky.

The moon shots were history. Americans were jaded about space. And then a little spacecraft just kept going and going and going. . .

Obsession led Albert Michelson to chase the speed of light, but he had another reason. Why study light? “Because it’s so much fun!”

The Mt. Palomar Observatory had no women's restroom. Until Vera Rubin taped a paper skirt on the door. Meet the woman who changed our view of the cosmos and of women in science.

One man.  A vision.  Thirty years working in his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."