The human capacity for invention and discovery is a remarkable phenomenon that has shaped the course of history. It is as if humans are driven by an innate desire to improve their lives and the world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dynasphere, an electronically gas-driven monowheel vehicle, being tested on Brean Sands by its inventor, John Archibald Purves ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...

February 13th, 2023 —The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure, the prolific ...

In 1994 when naming the Newell Shredder a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) stated: Mr. Newell’s original metal shredders were ...

New Jersey has a rich history of innovation and invention that will be celebrated at an upcoming event at the Shady Rest Golf & Country Club in Scotch Plains. “A History of Inventing In New Jersey: ...

After 7,000 years of "drinking tubes" across many civilizations, two men reinvented the straw in the last 150 years. The first made it modern. The second made it bend. sketch bendy straw.jpg Image ...

Hundreds of thousands of patents are issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for new inventions every year. Some of these creations, such as the lightbulb, personal computer, and automobile, ...

But despite the countless numbers of interesting, useful, and even groundbreaking inventions on the market, many other bizarre creations in history barely made it beyond their initial prototypes.