A rapid-fire tour of strange (and sometimes genius) inventions from the 1920s–1960s: a Bell-era jetpack test, a dashboard ...

Geoff Russ: Canada's purpose must be deeper than diverse takeout menus Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook ...

Age Based On How Many Of These Outdated Items You Recognize Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, people were terrified of ...

Imagine what life would be like without your phone, the internet, or even something as simple as electricity. It’s hard to ...

As a state, Massachusetts knows how to lead the pack. Apart from being one of the 13 U.S. colonies that gained independence from Great Britain in 1776, it's also home to some historical landmarks that ...

Nov 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. USPTO Director ...

First Invention of the World: The story of human progress begins with invention—the creation of tools and technologies that transformed survival and daily life. The first known invention dates back to ...

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BURLINGTON, WI — In 1896, German inventor Peter Angston created a panoramic camera, featuring a pivoting, spring-wound lens that recorded a 160-degree, and later, 180-degree, wide view on film. He ...

In a picture from 1974, Britton Sanderford, sitting in front of a circuit board with his pageboy cut and dark-rimmed glasses, looks like he wouldn't have been out of place in that mythical Los Altos ...