The article examines ten innovative inventions that initially generated excitement but failed to make a lasting impact.

Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the world in a better way, planes that fly farther, faster. But there’s still room, every so often ...

Here are the top ten NASA inventions we use in daily life. Memory foam At NASA's Ames Research Centre, aeronautical engineer Charles Yost created a novel plastic foam that had the ability to ...

With Chinese characters, ten is ten-blank and eleven is ten-one (zero was left as a blank space: 405 is 'four blank five'), This was much easier than inventing a new character for each number (imagine ...

In my view there have been at least ten. THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION First ... and their successors produced such epochal inventions as the lightning rod, the cotton gin, the steamboat, the metal ...

Her project was eventually recognized by President Obama, and Popular Mechanics endorsed her water-purifying device as one of the top ten inventions of the year. Not every passion project needs to ...

Upon their advice he patented the invention. His patent was fled at ten o'clock in the morning and at three in the afternoon another man applied for a patent on the same thing and lost a hundred ...

“Step inside the workshops of ten inventions that changed the world,” Amos proposes at the start of this whirlwind tour of technological development. From telephones and computers, to light ...

Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human ...

It’s a sector that is gaining in investment market share as increasing numbers of investors, talent and founders enter the ...

In this article, we explore ten such inventions that, despite their potential, didn't change the world as anticipated. Segway ...