Plombir: Ice Cream of the USSR

Soviet food scientists went to work creating foods that would fit Soviet tastes, and one of the resulting creations is still beloved today: the ice cream treat plombir.

The Invention of Jaywalking

The invention of the road as a car-centered space is a relatively new one. For most of history up until the early twentieth century, streets were shared spaces where multiple activities took place

Black Inventor Garrett Morgan

If you’ve done 1860s Unboxed, you learned a lot about traffic lights and even made your own! But you likely wouldn’t have recognized the traffic signals of the 1860s. They took on many forms and were not standardized until well into the twentieth century. By the 1920s though, things had only gotten busier with bicycles, horse-drawn carts, and motor vehicles … Read More