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, ...

Many of the daily items we use today are the result of decades of research, perseverance and good 'ole trial and error. For ages, inventors have sought to improve our ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

From the Publisher: Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the ...

Looking through the rubble of ancient civilizations, archaeologists have uncovered inventions so sophisticated they challenge everything we think we know about technological progress. While we often ...

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 ...