Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage month is a time for celebrating our diverse community and honoring those who have paved the way for future generations. Check out these 10 AAPI ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. February marks Black History Month, a time to honor the successes and contributions of African-Americans. From the mailbox to 3-D ...

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NAI Senior Member election is reserved for active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing and commercialization who have produced technologies that meaningfully ...

1900s — Garrett August Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky in 1878. The son of ex-slaves, Morgan quit school as a youngster but kept his studies up through personal tutoring as a teenager. In 1985 he ...

There really is no one-size-fits-all approach inventors can follow, and there is no inventing roadmap to success that will work in all cases. Notwithstanding, there are certainly a number of things ...

The Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued its 10-millionth patent since President George Washington signed the first patent in 1791. But a passel of inventors seized on the occasion to ...

Doug Engelbart, who has died aged 88, never really made any money from inventing the mouse. Here are 10 others who didn't get to be billionaires. When Nick Holonyak Jr invented the first practically ...

To be an inventor, you need a pile of junk, some imagination, and the ability to take a leap of faith. Some inventions change the course of human history -- and some backfire terribly -- relegating ...

Have you ever wondered what happens when the pursuit of progress takes a deadly turn? What if the very minds that revolutionized the world were also its most tragic victims? In this eye-opening and ...

Trevor Bayliss invented a wind-up radio which helped battle AIDS in Africa, but said he was living "in poverty" after failing to protect his ideas The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, ...