who make pretensions to science, and practical mechanics ... than steam carriages on common roads. An invention to be successful must not only be new, but useful—an improvement.

Part of being human is to create—to invent objects and ideas that will make life possible, simple and enjoyable. Homo sapiens have been innovating for more than 300,000 years, ever since the first ...

Although many of the concepts that science fiction works imagine aren’t real, there are quite a few modern inventions that the genre has inspired. From cell phones to automatic sliding doors ...