American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

Invented in the late 19th century as a means to contain cattle in the American West, barbed wire soon found military applications. Bettmann / Corbis Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in ...

Some of America's most famous ideas didn't come from fancy labs or big cities. No, they appeared in small towns & garages. Here are ten inventions that began in tiny American towns and other places ...