TV may still be a relatively young medium, but every decade since its invention, including the '70s, has produced an ...

Innovation often begins with an ordinary frustration rather than a laboratory breakthrough. Up until quite recently, opening ...

When STM Daily News featured inventor Thomas L. Jennings in our Forgotten Genius Friday series, we celebrated a remarkable American innovator whose achievements helped pave the way for future ...

But his crowning achievement came in 1876. Adams built a 24-foot concave mirror and had his London solar boiler shipped to Bombay. One morning, wearing dark glasses for safety, he turned the giant ...

Some familiar inventions began as accidents. For example, a petri dish left open that grew mould, by accident. But few serendipitous discoveries are as sweet, or as connected to childhood memories, as ...

Corvids get most of the credit, but pigeons are in the same club as one of the smartest birds in the world. They can recognize all 26 letters of the alphabet and even individual human faces, making ...

Quick Take A Man Of Many Inventive Hats The First “Drones” Were Neub... Pigeons Took Impressive Photos But Were ... A Brilliant Invention Created at the Wro... Corvids get most of the credit, but ...

Born in 1791 in New York City, Jennings lived in an era when opportunities for African Americans were severely limited. Yet he built a successful tailoring business, gaining a reputation for ...

From Kevlar to windshield wipers, pulsars to dark matter and radioactivity, women are responsible for countless scientific discoveries and inventions that changed the world — and yet, many of them ...

Welcome to a journey through time where we rediscover some of the most intriguing technological innovations that never quite made it into the mainstream. These fascinating inventions, often ahead of ...