As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

Learn more about the 10 Black women whose influential inventions have moved the world forward since the 1880s.

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ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty The CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, officially holds a place on Wikipedia's list of inventors killed by their own inventions. The Titan ...

Two NC Black men, the late Sanford Thurman and Vincent Spaulding , came close to making it big with their inventions.

You can thank risk-taking inventors for their numerous contributions to modern living. But behind many of these inventions were fantastic flops - things that either worked and didn't make succeed ...

Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York. Edison, who was ...

Born to a poor farming family, he aspired to be a millionaire and a famous inventor, and he achieved both goals. Born in 1907 in New Hampshire, Tupper moved many times in his youth, growing up on ...