While filming The Nature of Invention for The Nature of Things, we met dozens of talented inventors who blow these old stereotypes out of the water, defying all categories in terms of who they are ...

British merchant Peter Durand made a huge stride in food preservation with his 1810 invention of the can. Canned rations provided to soldiers and explorers saved legions from sure starvation.

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The bionic marble is one of the greatest things to come along in modern history ... But if there's one invention here that needs no sales pitch, it's this one. No. The sits under the car.

FRAN SCOTT:Some of you may be wondering what an inventor actually does. FRAN SCOTT:Well, it's lots of different things. For starters they do their inventing in an amazing variety of places.