History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of knowledge with them - engineering secrets, chemical formulas, mechanical wonders ...

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

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Paul Marks’s story about the imposition of patent prohibition orders struck a painful chord (9 July, p 24). Because the principal activity of my company is the development of equipment for defusing ...

Discover the history, importance, and key facts about the Nobel Prize, the highest award in science, recognizing ...