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We continue this week our biographical sketches of the lives of the great inventors whose portraits are offered (see another column) as one of our subscription prizes. At the extreme left of the ...

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

Inventors from all over the world demonstrate what it takes to be truly great. Britt Wray, presenter of The Nature of Invention If a certain stereotype comes to mind when you hear the word ...

Let’s hope your successors keep up the great work. You were an inventor, a visionary, and probably very, very tired. Enjoy your moment of zen. I am honoured to write to a Nobel Prize winner who ...

Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas Edison and his British assistant William Dickson worried that others were gaining ground in camera development. The pair set out to create a ...