History loves a winner, but car culture has always had a soft spot for glorious losers. The kind of cars that sold like warm beer at an ice hockey game, yet somehow managed to leave fingerprints all ...

Throughout history, humanity has displayed a remarkable talent for getting things spectacularly wrong when it comes to innovation. We've dismissed ...

1. Invention and innovation : a long history and modern infatuation -- 2. Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded gasoline ; DDT ; Chlorofluorocarbons -- 3. Inventions that were to ...

A significant number of inventions made at academic and research institutions, non-profit research organizations and businesses are developed using some amount of federal government funding (e.g., ...