Some of the inventions from this decade were totally unique.

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.

In an extreme environmental and political climate in the Colombian savannah, one maverick village has relied on its homegrown inventions to survive, down to adapting children's see-saws to draw water ...

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 ...