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 ...

As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

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 ...