Category: Time Tested
Changing the Phone Forever
Push-button format added convenience, enabled today’s high-tech communication devices. Although...
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Innovation Was Powel Crosley’s Field
Powel Crosley Jr. left an indelible mark in myriad other businesses that included radio,...
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Brothers in Arm: How George Devol and Joseph Engelberger Developed the First Industrial Robot
“To try to get a normal businessman to understand a robot, they thought you were talking about...
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Diversity in Innovation: African-Americans’ Impact is Forever Reaching
Noteworthy inventions by African-Americans range from the potato chip to the 1-gigahertz chip....
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Whose ‘Monopoly’ is it, Anyway?
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.
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Fidget Spinners Are Really Nothing New
Sensation derives from similar toys dating back centuries; media myths abound The fidget spinner...
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Instant Replay Inventor Got it Right
Tony Verna should get all of the credit and none of the blame For better or worse, instant replay...
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Timing, Marketing Made the Pet Rock Roll
Inexplicable 1970s sensation turned struggling copywriter into a millionaire. People ran...
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Painful Path to a Patent
Charles Goodyear endured poverty, poor health, prison, family tragedies in quest to vulcanize...
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A Time of Tech Triumphs
Historic innovation highlighted 1998, the year May was named National Inventors Month We thought...
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Against All Odds, He Had Games
Pioneering giant Gerald Lawson helped pave the way for a pop-culture mainstay. “For Honor.” “Halo...
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Inventor Archives: March
MARCH 3, 1821 Thomas Jennings became the first African-American inventor to receive a U.S. patent,...
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