Humans are highly creative and inventive creatures, and this quality has enabled them to make giant leaps forward throughout ...

The mid-20th century was a wild frontier of innovation where inventors weren’t just trying to solve problems, they were trying, somehow, to reinvent the way we lived. Some of these inventions came up ...

A rare tour inside the legendary innovation powerhouse Bell Labs, home to world‑changing 20th century inventions.

Robert Lucky’s mother was born in 1902 and died in 1998. She grew up on a farm in Virginia with no electricity, no radio, and no telephone. Yet she lived to see a man walk on the moon and the rise of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Correspondence, patents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and subject files about various inventors and ideas. Collection documents women ...