All the best inventions were once in the concept stage, like something as simple as paper towels and something advanced like smartphones. Places where these useful inventions came from vary ...

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We are conservatives in • respect to inventions which are old and useful, and reformers in respect to those which are old and of an inferior character. Plain common sense teaches any man that it ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System, Agility Robotics Digit holding Light Bio Firefly Petunias ...