Henry Ford’s first working internal combustion engine prototype was built on top of his kitchen sink. His wife Clara poured gasoline into the chamber while he operated the crank. I wonder if this is where the term “everything but the kitchen sink” came from.
Benjamin Franklin did experiments with electricity. Ok, you already knew that. He did experiments with Leyden jars. In some of these experiments he would connect the jars and line them up in rows and columns. They reminded him of a battalion of cannons, also known as a battery. See where this is...