The tale of oil-seeking mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry.
A Utah farm boy builds a prototype for a television, but is thwarted by movie studio executives wanting to control the technology.
"The Wizard of Menlo Park," Inventor Thomas Edison, built the first practical light bulb and revolutionized the world.
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
The effort of pioneering researchers to conceive babies through in vitro fertilization.
Equipment failure, human error and bad luck led to the country's worst nuclear accident in 1979.
The Alaskan Highway stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.
Major Walter Reed's discovery in 1900 that mosquitoes spread yellow fever halted an outbreak and led to the disease's eventual eradication.
George Eastman introduced the Kodak and Brownie camera systems and transformed photography into something anybody could do.