A device created by Johns Hopkins engineering students to help infants with nerve injuries wins top honor at the American ...

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The exhibition will include flying machines, water pumps, helicopters, parachutes and more, all imagined more than 500 years ...

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

An underwater ship -- A siphon for raising water -- Lifting weights by water, and a portable siphon -- Construction of sluices to raise ships to any height -- A machine worked by fire which can throw ...

From 18th century automatons that could write a full letter to the player pianos featured in every saloon, mechanical inventions have fascinated us for centuries. Yet the smallest pieces can garner ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued its Inventorship Guidance for AI-assisted Inventions for determining inventorship where artificial intelligence (AI) is used ...

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Americans are an inventive people, a fact that is both the pride and despair of the U.S. Patent Office, the hard-pressed clearinghouse for some 85,000 new patent applications each year. Last week the ...