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

From spaghetti forks to massage helmets, Stacker compiled are some of the strangest inventions of the last couple hundred ...

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 ...

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 ...

The road to Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, scene of the worst school massacre in American history, began in the suburban sprawl of Southern California suburbs in the late 1950s. It was ...

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: ...

Lansing, Michigan is known for being the state capital and a hub for the auto industry, but it also has a rich history of inventions. R.E. Olds, known for his contributions to the auto industry, held ...