Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...

Humans are highly creative and inventive creatures, and this quality has enabled them to make giant leaps forward throughout history thanks to a number of important inventions. These inventions have ...

As a result, there is no question that some military inventions found a place during the war, but looking back today, they ...

Throughout the 20th century, each decade had its own unique set of inventions that left their mark on history. Curious about ...

With hits like the Dyson Airwrap, Stanley ice cube trays, and the Ninja Creami, innovation in the 21st century is at an all-time high. Many of these inventions stand out for their clever design or ...

For each of the past 25 years, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best ...

From the first mothers to walk this earth to the Spice Girls’ girl power to female leaders around the globe, Beyoncé was right. When it comes to who runs the world, it’s girls. And while women haven’t ...

Most scholars cite the invention of paper as occurring in AD 105 when an eunuch in the Han court named Cai Lun created a papermaking process that was reported to the Chinese Emperor by Ts’ai Lun, an ...

While these inventions are a great help to humans in recent times, many of them were initially met with scepticism, rejection, or even ridicule. These include things like phones, the light bulb and ...

Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...

Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble our list of 2021’s Best Inventions, we solicited ...