The Chinese also invented fireworks rockets ... developed new means of propelling large objects through the sky. Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until ...

The printing press allowed literacy to spread and thinkers to share ideas and, thus, invent more things. Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the ...

It was energizing to visit the workshops, studios and even the high schools of these intrepid modern inventors. They all cared about solving different problems with their inventions but also had a ...