Inventor Archive

What is a supercomputer?

Marian R.

When you plug your printer, keyboard, or monitor into your PC, the majority of the time you'll find that it simply works,

Lee De Forest (1873-1961) invented the device that made wireless radio broadcasting practicable: the "triode" or "audio

In 1967, Robert Heath Dennard invented what is considered one of the most significant advances in computer technology:

Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and the Disney Studios empire, was born Dec. 5, 1901 in Chicago.

Ray Dolby, creator of his namesake audio system, was born on January 18, 1933 in Portland, Oregon.

John William Mauchly and J.

Today's cellular communications industry would not be what it is without the contributions made by Richard H.

Years before personal computers and desktop information processing became commonplace or even practicable, Douglas Carl En

Robert Everett and Jay Forrester were pioneers in the development of early digital computer equipment during the years man

Philo Farnsworth conceived the world's first all-electronic television at the age of 15.

James Fergason holds over 125 U.S.

The ease with which today’s average consumer can engage in extremely robust, high-quality desktop publishing can be credit

Global Positioning System technology, or GPS, has in recent years become a part of mainstream society, available to indivi

Inventor Charles Paulson Ginsburg, otherwise known as the “father of the video cassette recorder,” was born in San Fran