 The Spring 2020 issue profiled 50 women inventors. | |
| Editor | Edwin S. Grosvenor |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Frederick Allen |
| Frequency | Triannual (1985–1992) Quarterly (1992–2007; 2008–2011; 2020-present) |
| Circulation | 32,000 |
| First issue | Summer 1985 |
| Company | American Heritage Publishing |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Rockville, MD |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 8756-7296 |
| OCLC | 11638224 |
Invention & Technology Magazine (formerly known asAmerican Heritage of Invention & Technology) is a quarterly magazine dedicated to thehistory of technology. It was launched with sponsorship fromGeneral Motors in the summer of 1985 as a spinoff ofAmerican Heritage magazine.[1] Later, the magazine had a partnership with theNational Inventors Hall of Fame.[1]
“Our subject matter is actually nothing less than the making of the world we live in, and the stories of all the extraordinary people who made it,” wrote Frederick Allen, the Founding Editor, in 1985. He noted that the field of the history of technology is relatively new. "Up to now there has been no general magazine of wide circulation reporting on it. A gap exists between the findings of the scholars and the educated public," he wrote.[2]
There were three issues of the magazine a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along withAmerican Heritage itself).[3] Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed titleAmerican Heritage's Invention & Technology.[4] Publication was suspended after the Winter 2011 issue (volume 25, number 4).[5]
Invention & Technology relaunched in 2020 with grants from theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation andCharles Koch Institute and donations from 700 subscribers.[6] Its first new issue included profiles of 50 women inventors with articles by Dr.Shirley Ann Jackson, President ofRensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of theGirl Scouts, andC. Daniel Mote Jr., former president of theUniversity of Maryland.
Contributors have included such writers about the history of technology as W. Bernard Carlson,Tom D. Crouch,Julie M. Fenster, Robert Friedel,William S. Hammack,Stephen Hawking,T. A. Heppenheimer,Thomas P. Hughes,Sebastian Junger, Arthur Molella,Henry Petroski, Robert C. Post, and Mark Wolverton.
 | This science and technology magazine–related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article'stalk page. |
 | This article about a history-focused magazine is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article'stalk page. |