Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System, Agility Robotics Digit holding Light Bio Firefly Petunias ...

British merchant Peter Durand made a huge stride in food preservation with his 1810 invention of the can. Canned rations provided to soldiers and explorers saved legions from sure starvation.

In our recent national phenomena there is no other fact so significant, so startling, as the prodigious increase of inventions, both in their number and in their influence over business and daily ...

Fran Scott discovers how inspiration for an invention can be drawn from everyday problems. She meets the young inventors of two products that have helped solved common problems. Fran meets Mark ...

Investopedia / Kobus Louw Inventions like the spinning jenny and the water wheel transformed the way that goods were produced and energy was harnessed during the Industrial Revolution in Great ...

Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations ...

Innoskate research and public festivals spark the imaginations of young people through skate demonstrations, discussions with skaters and inventors, films, hands-on invention educational activities, ...

Check it out below: The short clip reveals Wallace unveiling his latest invention, the "smart gnome" Norbot (voiced by Reece ...

Germans have invented many things we couldn’t live without anymore. We’ve limited a very long list to our personal “TOP 40 Inventions, Discoveries and Breakthroughs”. We hope not to have missed the ...

The heart of the invention is a tiny chip with a groundbreaking nanostructured surface on which blood is tested. The chip's "metasurface" enhances electric and magnetic signals during Raman ...

It's like giving your vehicle a superpower! Unfortunately, there's a catch to this incredible invention: while they're ...

44, Issue. 2, p. 287. Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb emerged as distinct from two other geographical entities that, too, are colonial inventions: the Middle East and Africa. In ...