Inventor Archive

Most of us know Thomas Jefferson as the man who authored the Declaration of Independence, the United States’ first Secr

It may be difficult to imagine a world without the now-indispensable tool known as genetic fingerprinting, which analyz

Thomas L.

The Sunbeam “Mixmaster”

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the duo who began Apple Computer in 1976, are among the most well-known revolutionaries of t

Like many inventors, Charles Johnson started inventing around the time he started grade school.  However, with his

For years, Lonnie G.

Reynold Johnson was born in 1906 in Minnesota.

Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961) applied the mechanical experience that he gained at work and at war to revolutioni

In a career spanning over forty years, Howard S. Jones, Jr.

A revolution in the beauty industry occurred during the early 1920s when a group of female African American inventors d

Most of the fastening devices used in clothing today, like the shoelace, the button, and the safety pin, have existed in s

Born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1899, Percy Lavon Julian, the grandson of a former slave, overcame a lifetime of discrim

Charles H. Kaman has been a leading inventor and businessman in the helicopter industry for over 50 years.

Inventor Dean Kamen has forged a career based on two separate but equally important goals: to improve the lives of othe

Nathan Kane received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.