Trace locations historically associated with breakthroughs that have helped define the nation’s 250-year legacy.

Some inventions become famous overnight. Others quietly reshape daily life for billions of people without most people ever ...

Not all inventions start with a plan. Some came from failed experiments that turned into something useful when someone paid ...

Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

We love innovation. New products solve old problems and slowly change the world. But some things don’t really need it.

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The University of California secured more U.S. utility patents than any other university in the world last year, according to rankings released today by the National Academy of Inventors. The No. 1 ...

Helen Blanchard's zigzag sewing patent was a fundamental breakthrough which continues to be widely used, over 120-years after its invention In the 1800s, American women could not vote and many of them ...

Autonomous crop-managing inventions pushed by agricultural tech companies could spell doom for laborers in Northern ...