Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to tip his hat without ever putting down his newspaper. By her death in 1973, ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Throughout human history, certain inventions have fundamentally transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one ...

The result is 300 groundbreaking inventions (and 100 special mention inventions )—including an AI detector for teachers, a ...

Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

To determine TIME’s annual unranked list, we consider hundreds of inventions from around the world. In the past, we’ve ...

The event brought together students from Alanson, Boyne City, Boyne Falls, East Jordan, Northport and Petoskey to showcase ...

The history of human progress is usually defined by brilliant minds solving the world’s most pressing issues, but sometimes, that creative spark lands on something entirely unnecessary. We live in a ...

Humans are inquisitive folk. For our entire history, we’ve continually asked “what if”, with some seriously dedicated people committing large portions of their lives to experiment with different ...

The 1980s offered a wild mix of ideas. Some gadgets felt exciting on the surface, but left behind nothing but regret. Poor ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...