Human ingenuity is a remarkable thing. Throughout history, inventors have tackled real problems with creative solutions — and sometimes those solutions were so wonderfully, spectacularly misguided ...

The past half-century has produced some of the most significant and astounding inventions ever developed in human history, and many notable ones came to life in the United States. From advances in ...

Ever since Mental Floss debuted in 2001, we’ve been keen on covering some of the biggest, boldest, and best inventions from the brightest minds out there. We’ve seen the rise of iPhones, digital ...

CNN.com has posted the results of a three-month long survey on the Most Influential Inventions of the past 50 years. The silicon chip, created 44 years ago, was voted number one with 24% of the votes, ...

Long before modern microchips, wireless networks, and high-resolution touchscreen displays revolutionized personal technology, visionary inventors were already designing early mechanical equivalents ...