Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the world in a better way, planes that fly farther, faster. But there’s still room, every so often ...

Since then, Chinese media and officials have drawn on this to promote these technologies as China's "four new great inventions" in modern times. The term "four new inventions" harks back to the ...

Narrator:The ideas behind some modern inventions were first thought up hundreds of years ago. Narrator:Leonardo da Vinci lived in Italy over 500 years ago. Most famous for his art including the ...

Christ, Martin and González Gutiérrez, Carmen 2022. Introduction: death and the city in premodern Europe. Mortality, Vol. 27, Issue. 2, p. 129. In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, ...