Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani ...

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

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...

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

Innovation, creativity, and problem-solving were on full display at Ada Harris School in Cardiff School District as fifth-grade students unveiled their inventions during the school’s annual Invention ...