This column was originally published in the Houston Post on Oct. 7, 1963. In it, Hale offers up praise for the bicycle.

In 1816, the “year without a summer,” ash from a distant volcanic explosion renders the sky dark and cold, “from Beijing to Brussels, Naples to New York.” Digitally finished multimedia spreads in ...

Joseph Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction keeps blowing innovations away. The gramophone was destroyed by a radio cassette which was destroyed by CD. Eventually, online music took over. One ...

QINGDAO, China (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese man has invented a bicycle that trundles along on wheels shaped like a triangle and a pentagon, giving traditional transport an edge. Guan Baihua, a former ...

MOSHAV AHITUV, Israel (Reuters) - A bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard has the potential to change transportation habits from the world's most congested cities to the poorest reaches of Africa, ...

A man has invented a home-made amphibious bicycle using four foldable airbags and seven paddles. Deng Huaibin of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province told the Yangtse Evening Post that he developed the prototype ...