You’ve probably heard of the brilliant minds behind some of today’s most groundbreaking inventions—think the light bulb, the telephone and the World Wide Web. But did you know that not every inventor ...

Every time we switch on a light or boil a kettle we rely on power to do it. Episode one of The Genius of Invention reveals the fascinating chain of events that made such every-day miracles possible.

Dayton, a hotbed of ingenuity, was known as the invention capital of the United States in the early 1900s. Local inventors drew up patent applications and submitted them in droves, each one ...

The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public.

We idolize founders with brilliant ideas, but triumph often results from business savvy combined with imagination. By Shira Ovide It’s practically an insult in Silicon Valley to say that an executive ...