Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Throughout history, humanity has displayed a remarkable talent for getting things spectacularly wrong when it comes to innovation. We’ve dismissed world-changing inventions as “useless toys,” invested ...

Throughout human history, certain inventions have fundamentally transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one another. From ancient breakthroughs to modern marvels, these innovations have ...

Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani ...

As technology evolves for devices meant to enable construction in space, so must patent law to protect the intellectual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dynasphere, an electronically gas-driven monowheel vehicle, being tested on Brean Sands by its inventor, John Archibald Purves ...

OCT is a noninvasive technique used to produce detailed images of complicated biological tissues such as the retina and the ...

But despite the countless numbers of interesting, useful, and even groundbreaking inventions on the market, many other bizarre creations in history barely made it beyond their initial prototypes.