Waterbeds, as we know them, were invented in 1968, just after the "Summer of Love." Charlie Hall: A very open, experimental time in San Francisco. Narrator: That's Charlie Hall, the man who ...

The day before the lesson, distribute Handout 1, Selected Writings on the Invention of the Modern Japanese Man. This handout contains excerpts from the writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Yosano Akiko.

The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago had only one concern then about the brick-sized device with a long antenna: Would it work? These days Martin Cooper frets like everybody ...