Category: Time Tested

Cool As Ice

Posted by Reid Creager | Mar 22, 2019 | Time Tested

Glass Backboards: A Smashing Success

Posted by Reid Creager | Jan 23, 2019 | Time Tested

Time Tested Candy Corn

Posted by Reid Creager | Jan 10, 2019 | Time Tested

‘TV Miracles’: Eugene Polley’s Wireless Remote

by Reid Creager | Oct 18, 2018 | Product Development, Time Tested

Eugene Polley’s wireless remote control is a modern-era institution. The Zenith Flash-Matic “makes me think maybe my life wasn’t wasted. Maybe I did something for humanity—like the guy who invented the flush toilet.” —Eugene Polley

First in Disc Flight

by Reid Creager | Jul 22, 2018 | Time Tested

Fred Morrison’s inventiveness, salesmanship launched the Frisbee “We worked fairs,...

Changing the Phone Forever

by Reid Creager | Jun 18, 2018 | Time Tested

Push-button format added convenience, enabled today’s high-tech communication devices. Although...

Innovation Was Powel Crosley’s Field

by Reid Creager | May 24, 2018 | Time Tested

Powel Crosley Jr. left an indelible mark in myriad other businesses that included radio,...

Brothers in Arm: How George Devol and Joseph Engelberger Developed the First Industrial Robot

by Reid Creager | Apr 5, 2018 | Time Tested

“To try to get a normal businessman to understand a robot, they thought you were talking about...

Diversity in Innovation: African-Americans’ Impact is Forever Reaching

by Reid Creager | Mar 21, 2018 | Time Tested

Noteworthy inventions by African-Americans range from the potato chip to the 1-gigahertz chip....

Whose ‘Monopoly’ is it, Anyway?

by Reid Creager | Feb 16, 2018 | Time Tested

Anti-monopolist had patented forerunner to iconic U.S. game: Lizzie Magie sold her patent for “The Landlord’s Game” to Parker Brothers for $500 and no royalties.