An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.

There have been days recently when I would have liked to have been taken out of the present. Anywhere would have done. Greece 2012. The moon 2034. The entrails of a whale, to chat with Jonah, the ...

When was the Fax Machine Invented? Most Guesses Are Way Off Your email has been sent Most estimates are off by more than 100 years. Learn when the fax machine was actually invented and how it evolved ...

Father Gregory Keller, seen here around 1924, served as a parish priest while making inventions for his brother-in-law’s candy company in Georgia. Keller, a native of Little Rock, Ark., had a hand in ...

Finding himself "bored" one day, Joan Manuel Hidalgo devised a hands-free, but margarinally complex machine that toasts and butters bread. Jam Press/@thehacklifeyt Finding himself “bored” one day, ...

Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world's first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan. He was 100 years old. According to the Wall Street Journal, Negishi's daughter Atsumi ...

In its pursuit of a unique niche of knowledge management called intellectual asset management, Boston-based Invention Machine demonstrated at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo last week a retrieval engine that ...