Combining car and plane into a single vehicle remains a dream—but new efforts might change that

Serial doodler, drafter, and brainstormer, New Hampshire–born Earl S. Tupper was an inventor obsessed with improving everyday household objects.

In 1836, commissioner Henry Ellsworth turned the U.S. Patent Office into an engine of innovation—and Morse's telegraph became the system's first major beneficiary

Four hundred years ago, Galileo's writings led to the birth of modern science, and led to a famous conflict with the Catholic Church

Four decades ago, two physicists at Bell Laboratories stumbled upon a means of capturing light and turning it into data with a small piece of silicon, an invention that would revolutionize our daily lives

A proud father invented the cell-phone camera to share images of his new baby with friends

Filmmakers have long sought the means to add a little kinetic energy to their moving images

The town needed water if it was ever to grow into a major city. William Mulholland brought the water from hundreds of miles away, despite big natural obstacles and enormous human ones.