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Inventions & Discoveries

The scientists, inventions and discoveries that changed things, told as problems and solutions rather than dates.

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Every invention is a story with the same plot: a problem that would not move, and someone who found the lever. This shelf tells those stories as mechanism first and biography second, because "who invented it" only matters once you understand what the problem actually was.

The guides cover the inventions that rearranged daily life, from the steam engine to the telephone to synthetic rubber, and the discoveries that rearranged our heads, along with the scientists behind them: the famous, the undercredited and the ones history nearly skipped. Timeline pieces put decades like the 1920s in context, and the history-of entries trace how whole fields, from veterinary medicine to industrial design, assembled themselves.

Browse the featured guides above or the full list for a specific invention, inventor or era. Fair warning: most invention stories are messier than the textbook version, and the messy version is better.

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A Brief Overview of the Inventions of 2017

With scientific progress moving faster than ever before, numerous new and immensely useful inventions came out during 2017. Let us take a peek through the past year, at the inventions that had the most impact on our world.

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10 Things We Really Wish Someone Would Invent ASAP

Technology has made so many things easier for us. From drones to cell phones to Skype, you name it! Man has come a long way. But humans always want more, which is why we still feel the need that technology should make our lives even more easier. For starters, these are some of the things we wish someone would invent!

2 min read

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List of Scientists Who Have SI Units Named After Them

To honor their contributions, the names of several scientists have been assigned to the standard units of measurements. In this ScienceStruck article, we present a list of the scientists who have SI units named after them.

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