The nineteenth century, in which George Parkman and John Webster learned medicine, was a pivotal time for the transformation of medicine into a modern science.
One of the greatest remaining sources of contemporary information about the Parkman murder and the Webster trial are the newspapers of Boston and its surroundings in 1849 and 1850.
The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder.
In 1944 Miriam Menkin performed the first laboratory fertilization of a human egg. But Menkin would soon be forced to leave the lab she loved, and test tube babies would remain decades away.
Drs. Howard and Georgeanna Jones postponed their retirement to open an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in Virginia and ended up presiding over the birth of America’s first test tube baby.
The wealthy businessmen and fellow New Yorkers who financed Cyrus Field's vision of a submarine cable across the Atlantic and served as the board of the company.
Driven to succeed yet patient in times of failure, Cyrus Field kept the cable project going for twelve long years, crossing the Atlantic more than 30 times.
In June 1792, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous experiments with electricity.
