Think you know everything about history’s greatest inventions? Well, here’s the thing. Some of the most revolutionary ideas ...

Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations from ...

This massive reach explains why so many experts consider the web the single most influential invention of modern times. In ...

Some inventions are undeniably clever yet surprisingly irritating in everyday life. These inventions, though meant to be helpful and solved many purposes, instead annoyed millions of people. These ...

Sometimes, you stumble upon an invention that makes you wonder, "How did they even think of this back then?" Some ideas were way ahead of their time, only to be forgotten or overshadowed by newer ...

THE Chronicle has explored the revolutionary inventions of a Barnsley-born legend. Charlotte Oldroyd delved deeper into...

I’ve always found patents fascinating. Not just because they protect ideas but because they often reveal the odd, innovative, and sometimes downright quirky side of human creativity. When I started ...

In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

In a milestone rarely seen in modern innovation, VVater has achieved what no other company in history has, winning TIME's Best Invention Award, the CES Best of Innovation Award, and the World Future ...