Black inventors and entrepreneurs have played a crucial role in shaping industries, improving daily life, and driving technological advancements, often overcoming systemic barriers to bring their ...

"Packed with fascinating facts and awesome pictures, this book explores the greatest inventions and inventors through the ages."-- (Source of summary not specified). Find out about the greatest ...

Are you familiar with the name Alice Parker? Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas. Before that, people used firewood and ...

WEST FARGO, N.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bobcat Company, a global compact equipment, innovation and worksite solutions brand, has its history on display in a new exhibit within the National Inventors Hall ...

Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad ...

Lanny Smoot is set to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is the second Disney employee, after Walt Disney himself, to receive the honor. The Walt Disney Company announced that ...

The innovations of inventors are enjoyed every single day, from big-picture things, to the little things that make daily lives a bit easier. If you haven’t thanked an inventor today, you’ll soon get ...

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...