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The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

It’s easy to take these mainstays for granted.

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...

Inventors in the 19th century strived to mechanize sewing, a laborious task. Contrary to myth, no single person invented the ...

The technologies we rely on today, particularly smartphones, have largely superseded devices that were groundbreaking just a few decades ago. However, nearly every modern gadget evolved from an ...