Long before modern microchips, wireless networks, and high-resolution touchscreen displays revolutionized personal technology, visionary inventors were already designing early mechanical equivalents ...

Most estimates are off by more than 100 years. Learn when the fax machine was actually invented and how it evolved to today’s technology. Long before the era of smartphones, there was a time when ...

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 ...

EDINBURGH -- What has Scotland ever done for us? Plenty, it turns out. The land that gave the world haggis and tartan has produced so much more, from golf and television to Dolly the Sheep and "Grand ...

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