Many of the gameplay features we take for granted today had to start somewhere! Here are 9 games that invented famous ...

On a trip to New York City in 1902, Mary Anderson realized what a nuisance the falling snow was for her streetcar driver. Anderson couldn’t drive, but back home in Birmingham, she sketched up her ...

We often take for granted all the technological advances that we use on a daily basis, from the moment we get up in the morning and throughout the day. Without gadgets like the alarm clock to make ...

This article is excerpted from Who Invented the Bicycle Kick?: Soccer’s Greatest Legends and Lore by Paul Simpson and Uli Hesse, out now from William Morrow Paperbacks. Galeano does not date this ...

It is certainly tough to select the countries that have invented the most things in all human history because “things” is a very vague word and “all human history” is a long time span to cover. These ...

Necessity isn’t the only mother of invention. Though it wasn’t always easy to get patents or the credit they deserved, women are responsible for many items we use today. Below are some of the best ...

A lot of “American foods” — hamburgers, hot dogs, apple pie — weren’t actually invented in the States. Rather, they were imported from other countries. Americans still have plenty of cuisine to call ...

One time, I invented socks. True story! I was getting ready to leave the house and I was about to put on these killer (but deeply painful) shoes. As I prematurely mourned the foot-skin I was about to ...

Despite sending humans to Earth's orbit and the moon, the idea of humans surviving in outer space must seem like science fiction. Creating an environment that can sustain human life in the almost ...

Though people have always understood the concept of nothing or having nothing, the concept of zero is relatively new; it fully developed in India around the fifth century A.D., perhaps a couple of ...

Shontavia Johnson owns and consults for Jackson Johnson LLC, a business and innovation consulting firm. One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors ...