Since jobs in the real-world draw upon several disciplines at once, STEM does the same with science, technology, engineering, and math. Lessons integrate all these disciplines, so it's, therefore, ...

Much of today’s technology is powered by software that developers share freely. The leading Web server software (Apache), the leading smartphone operating system (Android), and most of the code of the ...

The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. was a pivotal period of rapid technological advancement and socio-economic transformation. Following the early stir in Great Britain, the US began its journey ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the production of ...

In last month's column I began a series about the Industrial Revolution, which started about 1750 and ran until about 1850. It arrived in the United States in time for our Civil War. Its effect in the ...