A person who comes up with a good idea might not always reap the rewards in China’s manufacturing ecosystem.

Mohamed Atalla of Egypt and Dawon Kahng of Korea are responsible for the technology that helped harness the transistor’s power.

The transistor was born in 1947 at Bell Labs in New Jersey. We’re looking into the culture of innovation that made it possible.

Inspired in part by Morse code, the barcode was originally conceived of as concentric circles.

A teenager tinkering in his lab invented a brilliant synthetic shade of purple in Victorian England.