In the early years of the 20th century, one man had a Big Idea. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird combined cinematography with the transmission of electric power to create a new medium, one that would change the world forever. That...

The Chrysler Building, commissioned by the famous car manufacturer of the same name in the 1930 s, is, at 1048 ft, one of the world s tallest buildings. But it held its title as the world s tallest for only a year when the Empire State...

Near Geneva is the Big Idea of CERN, the world s largest particle-physics laboratory. In its tunnels, situated underground, scientists study matter, anti-matter and the forces that created the universe itself. Scientists are working on...

In the 1980 s, the United States Air Force pioneered a Big Idea. It was a new method of navigation via satellite, predicted to have significant benefits for civilian, as well as military transportation. It was then called NAVSTAR, but is...

On October 14, Charlies Ellwood Chuck Yeager became, at 24, the first pilot to travel faster than sound In the years following World War 2, breaking the sound barrier was a secret goal of many in the air force. The X1 rocket powered...

The Big Idea of planet discovery and the exploration of distant galaxies have taken a new direction in recent times. The James Wentz Space Telescope, or the JWST, is a large, infra-red optimized, space-based telescope that will be...

During World War 2, a British engineering scientist had a Big Idea. The Big Idea was to bomb a German dam, causing massive water loss to German industry. His plan was to drop bombs from low-flying aircraft, and skip them into the dam...

100 years ago, two brothers had a Big Idea, and they changed the path of aviation history forever. Their idea was the challenge the theory of gravity and so the timeless dream of flying was realized. For Orville and Wilbur Wright, two...

The need to see in the dark; to observe weather patterns from outer space; or to conduct security surveillance at night, lead to the Big Idea of Night Vision, and Thermal Imaging. FLIR, or Forward Looking Infra Red, is a continuation of...

In the mid-1950 s the British engineer Sir Christopher Cockerel came up with his Big Idea of using air between the water and the hull of a boat to reduce drag. Sir Christopher s idea, the hovercraft, came into worldwide use in...

Building bridges has long been a Big Idea, and many ancient examples still stand today. Recently Prague residents celebrated the 600th anniversary of the laying of the first stone of their famous Charles Bridge. The University of...

The big idea to climb the highest mountain in the world had eluded many mountain expeditions until Tensin Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first to conquer Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, Norgay and Hillary were the first to...

Discover Ivo Zdarsky's incredible escape from Czechoslovakia and his innovative life in Lucin, Utah, where he continues to invent and explore.

Salesman, intelligence officer, pollster, farmer, and founder of Advertising giant, Ogilvy and Mather. David Ogilvy is known as the ‘father of advertising’, but is really the man who modernized the advertising industry.

Seth Godin is a marketer and a communicator. And, in 2008 he tapped into the emerging Zeitgeist, with his book, ‘Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us’. (

People refer to Philip Kotler as the ‘father of modern marketing’. His contribution to marketing is vast and his ideas are foundational. What really stands out was his analytical approach to what was, before Kotler, a woolly and vague...

Summarizing or saying the summary of a text is an important comprehension practice for kids to understand what they read.

During WW2 the search for more powerful and faster aircraft was ever increasing. When Air Commadore Frank Whittle had a Big Idea for a jet engine, he started a revolution in aircraft engineering. With the introduction of the jet engine,...

Jules Verne predicted that man would travel underwater in the 20th century, in his classic 2000 Leagues Under the Sea . In the early 1900 s his Big Idea had become a fact, with submarines coming into use by WW1. Another Frenchman,...

Although helicopters were developed and built within the first half century of flight, it was not until 1942 that a helicopter designer finally saw his idea into fruition, taking to the skies in his Sikorsky R4. In all, Sikorsky would...

The computer age was just beginning when one man had a Big Idea. This idea became Microsoft Windows, which, along with MS Dos, were the first software packages released by Gates’ company Microsoft. Windows 95 became the most successful...

This is the Portland street estate, a community ravaged by years of cuts. The council made a bold move in an attempt to turn the estate around – but how did the £1 homes experiment turn out?

Uploaded on the 167th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, we take a look at the big idea of women's rights in the 19th century as well as some interesting facts about the convention.

A super fast overview of this historic trial in 1925 that began to redefine how we teach science in our public school system