invention

American inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dean Kamen was born on this day 1951, in Rockville Center, New York. Kamen’s passion

Should you have opened your newspaper on this day in 1963, you may have come across an ad for a

On this day in 1887 Dr. Graham Edgar, developer of the octane rating system, was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. During

Oliver Evans was an American inventor who was essential to the development of steam locomotion. After building a high pressure

In the early 1930s, one Richard Hollingshead supposedly came to know a familiar complaint from his plump mother, “Movie theater

In the early 1880s, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started developing what would become known as the Grandfather clock engine,

Often referred to as the first movie star, Florence Lawrence, AKA The Biograph Girl, took her own life on this

Inventor Robert Kearns, who died on this day in 2005 at age 77, is who you can thank for intermittent

The U.S. Patent Office granted Patent No. 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor Garrett Morgan on this day in 1923 for his