Inventor Archive

The most visited public American artwork of the 20th century is the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by May

Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, is often referred to as “the first programmer” because she helped revol

George D.

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Long Island, New York native James McLurkin loved working with Legos, models, and bicycles as child.

Carver Mead has made many of the Information Age’s most significant advances in microcircuitry, which are essential to

Robert M.

Geologist and engineer John Milne is known as one of the most significant contributors to the understanding and evaluat

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of several improvements to the telegraph, was born in Charlestown, Mass.

Entrepreneur and inventor Sharon Mullen may be a perfect illustration of the saying, “Necessity is the mother of invent

A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate students conquered a major challenge of high-capacity op

Shuji Nakamura was born on May 22, 1954 in Ikata, Ehime, Japan.

For virtually any man, woman, or child born after 1950, the Muppets are sure to be familiar characters.