The early 2000s produced inventions that felt less like practical tools and more like props from a slightly awkward sci-fi movie. You watched familiar analog staples vanish almost overnight, replaced ...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking for donors who appreciate a gamble. As part of a campuswide capital campaign, the university’s Office of Technology Development is hoping to ...

First Invention of the World: The story of human progress begins with invention—the creation of tools and technologies that transformed survival and daily life. The first known invention dates back to ...

Do you know when was the first airplane invented? 1903 was the year that transformed the travel world. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, made this incredible discovery of inventing and ...

We recently featured a gallery of horrifying electrical inventions designed to keep human and horse libidos in check. John Ptak, the curator of that previous gallery of terrors, has shown us more ...

Strange Inventions From the Early 1900s | RealClearScience From the compressed air bugle to the geophone, discover the photos from the innovation archives established by Jean Perrin, the physicist who ...