Madam C.J. Walker, Mark Dean, and Patricia Bath are just a few Black inventors who have made life easier.

American inventors have transformed the world with innovations like the light bulb, the transistor and the pacemaker. But they also dreamed up the dog umbrella, Silly Putty and the Pet Rock.

Hedy Lamarr’s legacy extends far beyond Hollywood glamour. Behind the screen persona was an inventive mind that helped ...

From dry cleaning to cataract lasers, Black inventors quietly built safer homes, better health, and smarter everyday life for ...

Students at St. Jude School in Mountain Top showed their projects at the recent Invention Convention.

The 1960s were a turning point for American food culture. Convenience foods exploded, fast food chains expanded nationwide, ...

Robots, artificial intelligence and the good old-fashioned light bulb were some of the inventions explored by students of ...

Born in La Crosse in September 1886, Reuben Trane will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame as part of the ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction ...

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