Inventions

Get inspired with profiles and biographies of famous inventors and their inventions. Then, become an inventor yourself with our resources for transforming your ideas into consumer products.

  • Business Plan on Note Pad
    Sample Business Plan
  • lightbulb with hot filament
    FAQ: What is Electricity?
  • Student entrepreneurs are building drones during technology class
    Creativity & Creative Thinking
  • Early sugar farming and processing by slaves in the West Indies, 1753.
    History of the Agricultural Revolution
  • Businesswoman standing alone in conference room
    Fact or Fiction: Did Agapito Flores Invent the Fluorescent Lamp?
  • Funny Christmas couple
    The History of the Ugly Christmas Sweater
  • Guillotines
    September Calendar of Famous Inventions and Birthdays
  • Ice cream
    January Calendar of Famous Inventions and Birthdays
  • Who Invented the Toothpick?
  • On the October Calendar - October's Bright Blue Weather
    October Calendar of Famous Inventions and Birthdays
  • Hands by piles of coins, close-up
    Invention Funding: How Inventors Raise Money
  • Smartphone Technologies of the Future
  • Etching of race between the Tom Thumb steam locomotive and a train pulled by a horse.
    The Origins of the Term, 'Horsepower'
  • Spring Shoes
    How to File for a Design Patent
  • How a Space Elevator Would Work
  • Quotes of Galileo Galilei
    A Short History of the Scientific Revolution
  • woman hand holding and planting new tree in front view
    Who Invented Earth Day?
  • Historic Politicians You Didn't Know Were Also Inventors
  • US Patent form
    National Inventors Month
  • World's Biggest Easter Egg
    Easter Egg Photo Gallery
  • Review of the MI Guitar by Magic Instruments
  • Nasa spinoff cover 2015
    NASA Spin-Offs: From Space Technology to Earth Invention
  • Steel factory workers in hardhats standing near a large steel tube hanging from an overhead crane.
    The History of Steel
  • scientist using microscope in lab
    The Top Countries for Biotech Firms and Research
  • Scientist looking through microscope
    An Overview of Biotechnology and the Biotech Industry
  • Man Inventing Wings
    Before You Start an Inventors Log Book
  • Cyrus McCormick
    Biography of Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper
  • Painting of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek by Robert Thom
    Biography of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Father of Microbiology
  • James Watt, 1736 - 1819. Engineer, inventor of the steam engine
    Biography of James Watt, Inventor of the Modern Steam Engine
  • Granville T. Woods
    Biography of Granville T. Woods, American Inventor
  • Red and white striped drinking straws
    Biography of Marvin Stone, Inventor of Drinking Straws
  • Sir Charles Wheatstone
    Biography of Charles Wheatstone, British Inventor and Entrepreneur
  • John Heysham Gibbon Jr.
    Biography of John Heysham Gibbon Jr., Heart-Lung Machine Inventor
  • Orvile And Wilbur Wright
    Quotes of the Wright Brothers
  • Who invented WiFi, and what made it possible?
    Who Created Wi-Fi, the Wireless Internet Connection?
  • Photographic equipment, cameras, slides, lenses, rolls of film
    The History of Photography: Pinholes and Polaroids to Digital Images
  • Ruth Handler holds a Barbie doll, 1999.
    Biography of Ruth Handler, Inventor of Barbie Dolls
  • Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves and the Invention of the Spinning Jenny
  • Important Innovations and Inventions, Past and Present
  • Multiple Pinball Targets
    The History of Pinball
  • Thomas Newcomen's engine
    How Do Steam Engines Work?
  • Hanging clocks in sitting room
    The Development of Clocks and Watches Over Time
  • Young businessman using wireless headset while talking through smart phone at office
    Who Invented Bluetooth?
  • A section of blue denim jeans
    Fabrics - The History of Fabrics and Different Fibers
  • Hydrogen fuel cell
    Hydrogen Fuel Cells Innovation for the 21st Century
  • dyson dryer
    How the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Works
  • The First Telegraph
    Samuel Morse and the Invention of the Telegraph
  • Scientists Develop "Nano Bubble Water" In Japan
    Inventions Using Nanotechnology
  • Hand paying with a credit card
    Invention of Credit Cards
  • Spacewar on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1
    The History of Spacewar: The First Computer Game
  • DIY Tassel Scissor Charm
    Who Invented Scissors?
  • Native American woman in traditional dress
    Native American Inventions
  • A right hand sending letter to post box
    History of Mail and the Postal System
  • Pivot irrigation system sits in wheat field
    History of American Agriculture
  • Candy canes in a bowl
    The History of Candy Canes
  • Elevated view of illuminated casinos
    The History of Neon Signs
  • Liter bottles of 7UP on a grocery shelf
    The History of 7UP and Charles Leiper Grigg
  • View of wave breaking from underwater.
    The History of Sonar
  • Red, wet maple leaves arranged to make a Canadian flag
    Top 100 Inventions Made in Canada
  • TV and cords
    The Inventors Behind the Creation of Television
  • Cotton Harvest by cotton picker machine
    Inventions and Inventors of the Agricultural Revolution
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