He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the world. The rest of the time, he tried thousands of other things with only one fault—that they would never work.

An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one ... of papyrus (ancient paper) in ancient Egypt and then soap a while later. Many inventions have changed our lives for the better.

Candles were first mentioned in Biblical times, as early as the tenth century BCE. These early candles were made of wicks stuck into containers filled with a flammable material. The first dipped ...

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows ... Thereafter, it became a key weapon in warfare and remained so up through mediaeval times. Two major ...