Anthony Etherin’s Stray Arts (and Other Inventions) (Penteract, 148 pages, $20) considers various historical inventions (ranging from agriculture to weapons to the piano, and so on) and meditates on ...

With the constant threat of deadly epidemics in the early 1900s, Hamilton came up with a novel invention: Canada's first public water fountain. In the mid-1910s, the city began installing so-called ...

Thousands of patents are granted for new inventions every year in the hope they will change the world. And while many ...