Inventor Archive

Few Americans have made such a sweeping contribution to the process and business of inventing as Robert Rines, a trailb

A true trailblazer in the field of computer technology, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, born on Sept.

Born in Kansas City in 1910, Hazelle (Hedges) Rollins secured her place in history with the dedication she had to the a

Jordan Sand was a high school senior (class of 2001) at Ellendale High School in Ellendale, North Dakota who had a bright

Terahertz radiation, which consists of electromagnetic waves sent at Terahertz (trillion cycles-per-second) frequencies

Waldo Semon took a detour in his assigned laboratory research one day and ended up inventing the world’s second-best-se

In the 1960s, a pair of Bell Labs scientists, James Edwa

Donna Shirley, the original leader of the team that built the Mars Pathfinder rover, grew up in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.

The typewriter was reinvented dozens of times; but credit for the first practical machine is given to Christopher Latham S

Kavita Shukla had just finished high school and was already on her way to a prolific career in science and invention, w

Elmer Ambrose Sperry is one of the foremost inventor-entrepreneurs of American history.

Adventurer-engineer William “Bill” C.

During the early decades of settlement of what is today known as the bustling metropolitan area surrounding Los Angeles, C

Ivan Sutherland was born in 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska.

Technology developed by organic chemist Timothy M.