Category: American Inventors

Whizzbang helps train boys, men to avoid splashing.
“Our goal is to bring products to market that we have a personal attachment to, or a need for. It helps with product development when you are potentially the target market.”
—Shaun Kibbe

When inventor Liz Bales learned during the September 2014 Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference that euthanasia is their leading cause of death, she was shocked.

The Chinese are credited as being the first to use sheets of paper for toileting purposes, dating to the 6th century AD, even though paper was a rare commodity for hundreds of years.

“He used to demonstrate one of his inventions, a 1918 version of the microwave oven that he called ‘cold heat,’ by frying an egg through a newspaper. Thinking that the oven was too expensive to manufacture, he never patented it.

Avid hunter’s innovation takes aim at a lesser-known source of injuries “It is a real challenge to...

Inventors Digest a listed resource in pursuit of a merit badge;  The Boy Scouts of America and the...

The 10 millionth U.S. patent will largely be a celebratory event, but it has warranted a lot of...

1 million On Aug. 8, 1911—121 years after the Patent Act of 1790—Francis H. Holton of Akron, Ohio,...

Only one of the four+ major professional North American team sports has a clear-cut inventor....

Although sports trademarks have a long history, they have recently gotten more interest from the...

Danny Litwhiler’s innovations have become fixtures in the sport; an accomplished major-league...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of National Inventors Month, an American celebration of...