8 facts across the U.S.
The world's first nuclear power plant to generate usable electricity was built not in a major research city, but in the…
Illinois produces more nuclear power than any other state in the United States. The state operates 11 nuclear reactors a…
The world's first electronic digital computer was developed not at MIT or Bell Labs, but in a basement at Iowa State Uni…
MIT, founded in Boston in 1861 and relocated to Cambridge in 1916, has been affiliated with 97 Nobel Prize winners, more…
Area 51, officially known as the Nevada Test and Training Range, is a classified U.S. Air Force facility located on the…
Thomas Edison established his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876, describing it as an invention facto…
ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, was built at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia betwee…
Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen but relocated to the Seattle area…