Whenever innovation and creativity combine forces, brilliant inventions tend to follow suit. Each decade has its own set of unique technological advances that were known for either making life easier ...

The 1960s delivered gadgets that would send today’s safety teams into full panic mode. Engineers drunk on post-war optimism strapped rockets to backs, fed radiation to feet, and called it progress.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per the USPTO, Americans were "benefitting from a post-World War II economic boom" in the 1960s and a workforce that "grew by ...