National Museum of American History “I am delivering to you,” said the handwritten note addressed to the Smithsonian Institution, “the motorized wheelchair of Ed Roberts.” After several ...

Roberts, who died in 1995, led the early disability rights movement in the United States, according to the Google Doodles blog post. Born on Jan. 23, 1939 , Roberts was diagnosed with polio when ...

Google Doodle paid homage on Monday to what would have been the 78th birthday of pioneering disability campaigner Ed Roberts — who fought throughout his lifetime for people with disabilities to ...

See About archive blog posts. Ed Roberts, an engineer who helped develop a precursor to the modern personal computer, died Thursday in Georgia after several months of battling pneumonia ...

But one Georgia doctor got a much later start after a career on the cutting edge of electronics. Today, Dr. Ed Roberts practices in Cochran, Georgia. The seat of Bleckley County offers small-town ...

Boston lost one of its most influential pioneers in entrepreneurship last week when MIT professor Ed Roberts died at age 88. Roberts came to MIT as an undergrad in the 1950s and never left.

[Gareth Edwards] for Every has a fascinating profile of Ed Roberts, the man who arguably started the home computer boom but is now an obscure figure. Even if you’ve never heard of Ed Roberts ...

Dr. Ed Roberts was general practitioner in Cochran. He also worked a farm in Wheeler County. And he was an inventor who changed the world. Roberts created the Altair 8800 in 1974. It was the first ...