Welsh inventor Walter Clopton Wingfield, then a retired British Army officer, is credited with pioneering the sport around ...

The invention of the all-too-common microwave came down to an accident involving a Raytheon engineer, an experiment with some radar equipment, and a chocolaty peanut candy bar. In 1945, World War I ...

TV dinners have roots even before the 1950s, but a few things happened in the mid 20th century that saw the stratospheric ...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.

Distinguished guests at the June 13, 2025, commemoration of the 100th anniversary of one of the first demonstrations of television, top, recreated a 1928 photo of inventor Charles Francis Jenkins ...

Todd S. Purdum's biography explores the impact on American culture by the Cuban-born entertainer who (as husband and business partner of Lucille Ball) changed the rules of TV.

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

In “Invention,” conspiracy is the glue that holds a family together Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez's "Alice in Wonderland" tale is 2025's best, most moving film yet By Coleman Spilde ...

‘Mr. Polaroid’ Review: PBS’s Picture of a Visionary An ‘American Experience’ documentary focuses on the inventor of the Polaroid camera, Edwin Land, a man of both brilliance and egotism.

A long-in-the-vaults Frank Zappa television special, recorded in June 1974 but never aired, will finally be released next month as a concert film and live album. Cheaper Than Cheep captures Zappa ...

From the pioneering black-and-white broadcasts of the 1920s to today’s streaming mega-series, the invention of television changed the world’s entertainment. TV has been a major part of global culture ...

In fact, as Sasson explained to the New York Times in 2015, "They were convinced that no one would ever want to look at their pictures on a television set." This would've been the only way to see ...