An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.

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Whenever innovation and creativity combine forces, brilliant inventions tend to follow suit. Each decade has its own set of ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles ...

What do you want?” I think technology-enabled rudeness began with the invention of the answering machine. Some people began ...

A machine uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sort used clothes by composition at high speed, showing how AI could reduce the impact of synthetic textile waste. The Fastsort-Textile machine was one ...

The Mill at Anselma has restored its machinery to appear as it did when it opened in the 18th century. Its wheat stones ...

There are not many people who have had as influential a life as they have a legacy, but Leonardo da Vinci is one of those ...

Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a painter — he was a machine-building genius centuries ahead of his time. His notebooks reveal designs for flying machines, armored vehicles, mechanical knights, and ...

Sebastian Mallaby’s compelling biography of the DeepMind co-founder traces his life’s mission to create artificial general intelligence ...

Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...