Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Hundreds of thousands of patents are issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for new inventions every year. Some of these creations, such as the lightbulb, personal computer, and automobile, ...

Some of the inventions from this decade were totally unique.

But despite the countless numbers of interesting, useful, and even groundbreaking inventions on the market, many other bizarre creations in history barely made it beyond their initial prototypes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dynasphere, an electronically gas-driven monowheel vehicle, being tested on Brean Sands by its inventor, John Archibald Purves ...

They aren’t famous, and didn’t necessarily get rich, but their products made domestic labor easier and safer.

We asked you how you would you solve the problem of a lack of goals for Leeds, after the Whites failed to find the net for the fourth successive match in Saturday's 0-0 draw against Brentford. Here ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...

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