Looking back at these ingenious mechanical designs shows how early visionaries successfully anticipated the lifestyle needs ...

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In 1839, a Scottish blacksmith invented the first rear-wheel-driven vehicle which set the world in motion and laid the ...

How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...

Introduction -- Industrial copies -- Recollection and possession -- The principle of a machine -- Mechanical jurisprudence -- Reissues -- Textual machines -- Organisms as manufactures -- Cultures, ...

In 1780, a Scottish inventor created a copier hundreds of years before modern-day equipment came into existence. James Watt ...

The technologies we rely on today, particularly smartphones, have largely superseded devices that were groundbreaking just a few decades ago. However, nearly every modern gadget evolved from an ...

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. KUOW is ...