Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Throughout human history, certain inventions have fundamentally transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one another. From ancient breakthroughs to modern marvels, these innovations have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dynasphere, an electronically gas-driven monowheel vehicle, being tested on Brean Sands by its inventor, John Archibald Purves ...

Whenever innovation and creativity combine forces, brilliant inventions tend to follow suit. Each decade has its own set of ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...