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 ...

New York, NY - September 29, 2026 - Hungry Minds ’ third, highly anticipated flagship book, written by bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author Noah Charney, gives overlooked, abandoned and almost 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 ...

Professor Mark Lemley’s paper “The Myth of the Sole Inventor,” which breaks down the idea that invention occurs independently, is the basis for the below article in The Atlantic. The world’s most ...

The light bulb wasn’t really Edison’s. The telephone wasn’t really Bell’s. In 2002, the U.S. Congress officially corrected the record on one of them. The full list is longer and stranger than school ...

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: ...

1. Invention and innovation : a long history and modern infatuation -- 2. Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded gasoline ; DDT ; Chlorofluorocarbons -- 3. Inventions that were to ...