Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.

INNOVATION is the grease in the economic engine, the sparkle that keeps culture fresh and the key ingredient in nearly every billion-dollar fortune. To kick off our yearlong series of special reports ...

NEW YORK -- Benjamin Franklin's birthday may not be a well known holiday, but it's one worth celebrating. Before the Founding Father invented the lightning rod, he came up with the idea for swim ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the 2026 Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography. I am incredibly pleased to see them get this recognition. I have always thought the technology to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At a black-tie event celebrating the National Academy of Inventors in Washington D.C. a couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of ...

Innovation, creativity, and problem-solving were on full display at Ada Harris School in Cardiff School District as fifth-grade students unveiled their inventions during the school’s annual Invention ...

We are now all aware that this is a defining moment in history. A microscopic amount of cells has ravaged our public health, our economy and our way of life writ large for the foreseeable future. And ...

PITTSBURGH, April 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a safe and convenient way to store and transport a beverage cup and cell phone when using a walker," said one of two inventors, from ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 1859, Abraham Lincoln stated that “The patent system ...

Kindeva/ In the news release, Kindeva(R) commemorates 70 years of the pMDI as inventors are inducted into the 'National Inventors Hall of Fame', issued 23-Mar-2026 by Kindeva over PR Newswire, we are ...