Of all the U.S. military arms of the mid-19th century, one of the most interesting, effective and well-built was the Model ...

With the smell of campfires hanging in the spring air, mingled with the sharp tang of black powder and the soft hiss of bubbling stewpots, somewhere near Crystal Lake, nestled in the rolling hills of ...

The Brown Bess begins use in about 1730, and this type of gun would have been the workhorse of the British Army through the 18th century into the 19th century. It was an extremely important gun to ...

Photo Credit: Ash Marie Stepping through the wooden gates feels like the closest thing we have to time travel—suddenly you’re in the 1770s, surrounded by rough-hewn log cabins and the tools of ...

More than 400 German toys dating from the 19th Century have sold at auction for almost £200,000. The collection of toys made out of wood, papier-mâché or composition in the Sonneberg and ...

NORWOOD, Ohio (WXIX) - Fire roared through a 19th-century home under renovation in Norwood early Thursday, causing the roof to collapse. The house at Hudson and Floral avenues has been vacant ...

PLATTSBURGH — Demolition of the 19th-century house at 330 Cornelia St. had been a long time coming. City of Plattsburgh building inspector Joe McMahon said the house, which sat in the middle of ...

The androids’ hardware and software can generate comedy or tragedy. But either way, these 19th-century automatons on 21st-century stages reaffirm that the uncanny valley stretches centuries into ...

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.

From the flintlock ... rifle, with a maximum rate of fire of about 15 rounds per minute. For comparison, modern military rifles can cycle at a rate of about 950 rounds per minute. In the 20th ...

Less accurate than a rifle or carbine at long range ... and more weather resistant than the flintlock design. From the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, revolvers were the ...