Inventions and Ideas That Almost Made It The mid-20th century was a wild frontier of innovation where inventors weren’t just ...

New inventions, such as the jigsaw, and construction methods, such as mass production, opened up previously unheard-of possibilities for architects and designers. One such designer was Stephen Hedges ...

Digital picture taking has sealed the tomb of chemically-processed photography as we've known it. But there's still a lot of interest, especially in the museum world, in pre-digital photography.

While it's true that good things often come in small packages, it's also true that the package can last longer than the thing. Such is the case with perfume bottles. Indeed, the whole idea of glass ...

One such designer was Stephen Hedges of New York, whose patent for a “combined table and chair,” filed in April 1854, can be viewed online in Google Patents. His invention appears to be a small round ...