Sir James Dyson, the billionaire inventor whose family fortune was valued at £23billion in the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List, ...

Video by Sarah Joseph and Jon Betz, Smithsonian Digital Studio; Text by Megan Gambino Benjamin Franklin invented swim flippers when he was 12 years old. Frank Epperson, age 11, conceived of the ...

Wenchao Zhou, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Arkansas, has been named a senior member ...

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It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

While innovation is core to American identity, women inventors were named on only 13% of 2019 U.S. patents. In part, that's because women's patents are less likely to make it through the examination ...

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William “Bill” Post, the man credited with inventing the iconic toaster pastry Pop-Tarts, has died at 96. Post worked as the plant manager for the Michigan-based Hekman Biscuit Co., later known as ...