inventions

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Founded in 1874 by a group of friends in a dancing club, Hearts has been playing organized soccer since before the great Scottish inventions of the telephone, penicillin, or the deep-fried Mars bar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

“Discoveries and inventions don’t make themselves, Stassun said. “People do those things.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

In the 1880s, Granville T. Woods won patent battles to protect his inventions, including a system to allow moving trains to communicate wirelessly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The result was that lone inventors were less likely to achieve major breakthroughs and more likely to create particularly poor inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

But its very simplicity and the great ease which it lent to all computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife