The waterwheel is considered the first rotor mechanism in which an outside force created power to spin a shaft. The Greeks are said to have first developed the waterwheel, using it to raise water from rivers. Polls or pots were attached around the...

For water wheels used to drive boats, see paddle wheel. For wheels used solely to lift water see noria. For factories or industries driven by water wheels see...

A retired police chief who made a career out of solving crimes is puzzled by his latest case, a postcard dated nearly 60 years ago that recently showed up in his mailbox.Ned Hethington said a plain white envelope containing a faded postcard of an old...

An errant Israeli missile killed Mariya Aman's mother and brother, and left the 6-year-old Palestinian girl paralyzed from the neck down.Now Israel wants to cut off the medical care she has been receiving in Jerusalem and force her to leave to the West Bank, where...

Here's a secret about Longfellow's Wayside Inn: The poet himself never stayed overnight. "Longfellow only visited for that one day in October 1862," said Guy LeBlanc, manager of museum services at Wayside, which...