Form and functionality - these are the core factors that define any good product design! But this one innovator has us scratching our heads with his ingenious t

This patent image was created by using U.S. Patent #US 438,310 Light Bulb Lamp Base was patented in 1890 by its inventor Thomas Edison. In this light bulb invention, Edison modified his incandescent lamps to work in a variety of manufacturers sockets - which at the time were often incompatible with each other. Patent p

Just a backup of the illustrations I've being doing for textbooks through the years. The good ones and the fool ones. A spoonfull of my day job. Thanks for keeping an eye.

As science and technology develop, many inventions emerge. These inventions not only make our daily lives easier. They also help save many people's lives. In...

The compass was probably invented in the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC) by Chinese fortune-tellers who used the stones to construct their fortune telling boards. But they eventually realised that the stones were always pointed towards the north, and the compass really came into being.

Along with being a master artist, Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance Man in the truest sense, was also a prolific inventor, conceiving hundreds of inventions far ahead of their time.

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Download this stock image: Thomas Edison operating a telegraph machine. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long- - G15K03 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.