From instruments played with water to early electronic devices promoted by the Nazis, we take a look at the surprising history of instruments named after their creators.

We use countless everyday items without giving much thought to how they came to be. Most of us assume these products were ...

This ubiquitous jar is named after John Landis Mason, who patented Mason jars in 1858. Made to preserve or can food, mason ...

It was a dream to be asked by the Smithsonian to paint a portrait of disability icon Temple Grandin. Here's what I hope you see in this painting.

Today, more than a dozen of the moontowers stand, 130 years after they were first constructed. Those lights represent a slice ...

Explore Locust Grove, the elegant Hudson River estate where Samuel Morse spent his summers surrounded by art, science, and ...

The 2025 edition of Time’s annual “best inventions” list saw the magazine expand the docket from 200 to 300 innovations—more than 10% of which comprise medical devices, pharmaceuticals and other novel ...

There are a lot of fictional inventions in movies and TV shows, mostly in the sci-fi genre, that have since become real things. Often, it's not exactly what we saw in the movie or television show, but ...

DENVER (KDVR) — It’s not too often that you would see a nationally awarded invention coming from a kid, but one of those rare instances came from Lone Tree 12-year-old Anirudh Rao. Rao was named a ...

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has said that his department has been in contact with top universities to create "deals" that would give the government patents for their research and inventions.

Our august book is Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí's 'The Invention of Women'. Join us to talk about colonialism, African feminisms, western constructions of gender, and more. We meet in the Napier Building at the ...