Alan Riser, president and founder of Charitable Ingenuity Inc., is an inventor, humanitarian, outdoorsman, pilot car company ...

In honor of Black History Month, meet Andrew Jackson Beard, the inventor whose Jenny coupler saved rail workers and transformed railroad safety.

A fter more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only begotten but continuously fathered the electrical era, Thomas Alva Edison believes that we have only ...

Rebecca Hannigan’s debut novel is inspired by her childhood summers in West Cork and the shadow cast by the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Here, she writes about the gut-punch emotion she ...

Bhagalpur, have secured a design registration patent from the Indian Patent Office for their ‘Dynamic GI (Geographical ...

February is known as a special month for innovation as it marks birthdays of some of the worlds greatest ever inventors and ...

Forbes launched its yearlong series celebrating America’s 250th birthday. The bold first milestone: honoring the greatest innovators shaping the nation’s future.

A rechargeable battery based on technology pioneered by Thomas Edison may finally get its due. But while the famous inventor envisioned nickel-iron batteries powering the automobile industry over a ...

The stuffy confines of the United States Patent Office could scarcely have presented a less romantic Valentine's Day setting. But on the morning of February 14, 1876, amid the thrum of ...

New stamps to celebrate Hornby model railways - Set of eight stamps feature specially commissioned photographs of Hornby ...

On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I.

The best children's museums in the country have interactive exhibits where kids want to linger, playing is encouraged, and learning is a byproduct of the fun.