Discover 25 revolutionary inventions from the Industrial Age that changed the world forever. Explore the steam engine, spinning jenny, and more. See how th ...

Discover 25 little-known historical inventions that changed daily life forever. From ancient computers to Roman concrete, ...

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Steve Anderson In a world ...

In the early decades of the 20th century, a slew of technologies began altering daily life with seemingly unprecedented speed and breadth. Suddenly, consumers could enjoy affordable automobiles.

The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead proclaimed that “the greatest invention of the 19th century was the invention of the method of invention.” Whitehead was talking about the systematic, ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson. In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive. In the ...

There are some that will tell you that the use of the term “invention” or “present invention” in the specification will limit the claims. This misguided belief suggests that merely using the word ...

Before the mirror was invented, we had glimpsed our own reflections in water, or in polished metals, but never really seen ourselves. It wasn’t until the development of the high-quality mirror-image ...

The sad truth is that many inventors and entrepreneurs have had their share of difficulty with the various invention promotion and idea promotion companies out there. You have probably seen them ...