All of them, landmarks in technology. And they all have one thing in common: they were made by Poles. 'Ja Pierdole!' You might say, 'I had no idea a Pole thought of that'. The fact is that there are ...

Here are six things that you might be surprised to know were invented by young people. Light touch. Braille has been helping blind people read since 1824 Louis Braille, who had been blind since an ...

A FORMER SCHOOLTEACHER turned adventurer, who previously survived a bear attack, today became the fastest and oldest person ...

Inventors shape the world we live in with their scientific discoveries and technological innovations. Over the last century they have transformed our lives with inventions ranging from the humble ...

A teacher in Galicia, Spain, Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the first mechanical book way back in 1949. She was looking for a way to allow her students to carry fewer books to and from classes ...

Although historically ubiquitous and seemingly omnipresent, ink is anything but simple. Ever since the Pleistocene, inks of all types have been invented and reinvented, with every ink a product of its ...

The Inventions and Sinfonias is a collection of short pieces Bach wrote for the musical education of his young pupils. These are among the finest examples of artistic gems ever written for this ...

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence (AI) was not a product of the late 20th and early 21st centuries but was brought into existence much earlier, in 1951, by the brilliant mathematician ...

An early woollen item in our collection is a pair of socks from Egypt that date from the 3rd to 5th century AD. They have been made using the technique 'nålbindning', a laborious technique more akin ...

Now Target has a home line designed for them: Made By Design. Target sets the table in a statement: “Guests – especially those establishing their first homes – crave quality everyday items ...