On a rainy day in Detroit, a Ford engineer got confused, then soaked—and inspired. It took decades before he got any credit.

We idolize founders with brilliant ideas, but triumph often results from business savvy combined with imagination. By Shira Ovide It’s practically an insult in Silicon Valley to say that an executive ...

Pilot an airplane high in the sky. Switch on the air conditioner. Sip a cold beer. Ride the elevator to the top of the Chrysler building. Pop a Prozac (r). We may take these clever inventions for ...

Discover the groundbreaking innovation that could transform your daily routine in our latest video, "Genius Invention You May Need This." Dive into the details of this inventive solution that blends ...

Every time we switch on a light or boil a kettle we rely on power - but most people don't stop to think about the inventions and discoveries that allow us to live the way we do. In an exciting new ...

The sun goes behind a cloud. Winds die. Rivers slow to a trickle. But the ocean never rests. And yet, while we’ve built solar panels, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams all over California to ...

Dayton, a hotbed of ingenuity, was known as the invention capital of the United States in the early 1900s. Local inventors drew up patent applications and submitted them in droves, each one ...

There were ideas long before there were light bulbs. But, of all the ideas that have ever turned into inventions, only the light bulb became a symbol of ideas. Earlier innovations had literalized the ...