One curious fact about Nokia's early days is that the company played a significant role in developing Finland's first telephone network during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was a ...

Phillips electronics has been around as long as electricity has been used, but since then, the company has expanded greatly ...

In 19th century America, churches and charities often organized similar ... it seemed as though feature phones were making a real comeback. Companies like Nokia, which used to dominate the mobile ...

In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers ...

The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field.

Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

In the 19th century, the number of people in prisons grew dramatically. Prison sentences became a far more common punishment as many forms of corporal punishments died out. Many new prisons were ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

The resulting optical illusion wasn’t a supernatural apparition: Instead, it was the product of a scientific phenomenon known ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.