Insights Some of the most important inventions ever were created by accident.  Viagra is a surprising addition to this list ...

The first patent issued for an invention by an American inventor was in 1790 for an improvement to potash production, and it ...

If you’re curious about what was invented the year you were born, RS Components compiled a fascinating list, which we’re ...

In this world of curiosity, I like to distinguish between invention and discovery. I see a discovery ... I live by Einstein’s life lesson that the “important thing is never to stop questioning.” ...

For an invention so world-changing as the wheel, scholars know surprisingly little about its origin story—but there is no ...

Phillips electronics has been around as long as electricity has been used, but since then, the company has expanded greatly ...

A new study suggests that the copper miners from the Carpathian mountains around 6,000 years ago may have had a role in ...

For an invention so world-changing as the wheel ... advantages of the wheelset over its predecessor while negating its most significant disadvantage: the inability to turn.” ...

or discoveries. And they started because of this guy, Alfred Nobel. He was an engineer and inventor who was born in Sweden in 1833. One of his most famous inventions was dynamite. It was really ...