The ice cream cone is one of America's favorite summertime treats, but it was actually a happy accident that gave us this beloved dessert.

After much trial and error, Alexander Graham Bell finally invents the first telephone, which connects the universe in more ways than one.

During the height of the Industrial Revolution, Josephine Cochran invented the first commercially successful dishwasher.

In 1969, Stanford programmer Bill Duvall sent the first inter-computer communication, which many consider to be the birth of the internet.