From Sara Blakely, creator of Spanx, to James Dyson, discover the innovators whose single creation hit the big time.

He was just added to Wikipedia's list of inventors killed by their own inventions. The list is comprised of 26 entries split into a variety of different categories: aviation, medical, and maritime ...

So here’s a toast to 10 mothers of technology. And for an updated look at some new mothers of technology ... In 2008, Hoover was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, for ...

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 ...

Giovanni Caselli was an Italian physicist. He is the inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine. The world's first ...

Nathan B. Stubblefield was an American inventor and Kentucky melon farmer. It has been claimed that Stubblefield demonstrated radio in 1892, but his devices seem to have worked by audio frequency ...