The greatest invention of all time isn't, as is sometimes argued, penicillin. Nor is it the computer. Nor is it running water, electricity, the automobile, or the airplane. Rather, it's the thing that ...

In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...

A nationwide poll of 2,000 adults has pinpointed the top three most significant inventions of all time as electric power, the internet, and penicillin. Thomas Edison's pioneering work on electric ...