In recent years, there have been some incredible new inventions that use state-of-the-art technology and the latest innovations. However, there have also been some very simple inventions that have ...

National Inventors’ Day, celebrated on February 11, honors the creativity, ingenuity, and perseverance of inventors whose ...

Robots, artificial intelligence and the good old-fashioned light bulb were some of the inventions explored by students of ...

Lonnie Johnson, NASA engineer and inventor of the best-selling water toy the Super Soaker, sits with his prototype and his patent. A curiosity of the innovation ecosystem is that while inventors are ...

In a new book, Smithsonian historian Eric S. Hintz traces the rise and fall, and rise again, of the maverick inventor Elon Musk, after securing a $2.9 billion NASA contract for SpaceX, recently hosted ...

Smithsonian’s Eric S. Hintz, a historian of invention, details how scholars are envisioning a more inclusive ecosystem for the innovators of tomorrow Scholars say that Afrocentric notions of invention ...

Developed at Wake Forest University, vacuum-assisted closure therapy has helped an estimated 20 million patients — and earned ...

Some inventors continue to be productive well into their later years, although the characteristics of inventions differ by the age of the inventor, according to new research on patent filings. The ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

He works in mysterious ways.