Inventor Archive

Isaac Newton was one of an elite group of individuals considered to have possessed one of the greatest scientific minds in

Elwood “Woody” Norris proves that there is no magic formula for becoming a successful inventor.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer is likely the first name that comes to mind when one mentions the atomic bomb.

Mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 19, 1623.

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, a small town in eastern France.

Sometimes it takes a young innovator’s fresh eyes and outsider’s perspective to come up with a unique solution to a lon

The California Gold Rush, which took place from 1848 through 1855, brought thousands of men and women from the eastern sta

During the 1970s scientists and programmers were working hard on assembling the networks and technology to enable what

The now taken-for-granted system of voicemail was made possible by the work of Danish inventor

Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999) was born in Kharkov, Russia and emigrated with his family during the Revolution and arrived via

For some time during the 1990s, Finnish researcher Ismo Rakkolainen’s living room was strewn with a pile of banana boxe

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT

Grote Reber was born in Chicago on December 22, 1911.

Polymer chemist Elsa Reichmanis was born on December 9, 1953 in Melbourne, Australia.