Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...

Humans are highly creative and inventive creatures, and this quality has enabled them to make giant leaps forward throughout ...

According to experts, Edison’s most important invention wasn’t patentable, but it could benefit modern-day banks and insurers trying to reinvent their digital capabilities. Thomas Edison is one of ...

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 ...

From the fire extinguisher to caller IDs, many inventions people use daily trace back to African American innovators. That was the message delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 25, during a Black History Month ...

What sort of book might Vaclav Smil write if he turned his attention to higher education? Imagine that Smil retained his outline for Invention and Innovation but drew all his examples from the academy ...