1965: Kevlar Hey, road trippers, you’ll appreciate 1965’s invention more than most. Kevlar, the super-strong synthetic material used in car tires, was produced by Stephanie Kwolek, a chemist working ...

He's probably the most famous inventor you've never heard of. You might recognize his name because of the car brand named after him or because he's one of the main characters in the new film "The ...

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Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

On printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg's death anniversary, we look at other great names, who have contributed immensely to the development of modern science and technology with their ...

Humans are curious by nature, sharing an inherent thirst for knowledge to better both ourselves and humanity as a whole. Yet it takes a brilliant mind to harness that knowledge and use it to invent ...

Edison Light Bulb, 1879, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention—the light bulb, ...