invention

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Here are my picks for the most interesting, potentially useful inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal

These are my picks for the most interesting, potentially useful inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal

What began as an idea when one person got rained on became a simple and brilliant invention that would reach billions of people.

From The Wall Street Journal

Good information remained hard to come by, right up to the invention of the internet—as anyone who remembers card catalogs can tell you.

From The Wall Street Journal

She also worked in Hollywood in the 1960s, starring in The Pink Panther, where co-star David Niven paid her the best compliment she said she ever received: "Claudia, along with spaghetti, you're Italy's greatest invention."

From BBC