From the way we dress to what we eat and drink, American innovation has changed lives around the world. Read on to discover ...

Say what you will but to my way of thinking Sir Thomas Crapper’s invention of the flushing toilet is head over heels better than what Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla came up with. When I was growing up ...

It’s high time that Nicholas Holonyak Jr. is given his due. You’re probably saying, “Who?” To which I say, case in point.

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA): A few facts about the origin of electric Christmas lights - Information ...

Albert Wong Hak-keung, CEO of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, told candidates: “Try to act like inventor Thomas Edison or innovator Steve Jobs!” Wong emphasised that ...

A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, ...

In that year, the inventor and civil servant Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to design a card to help Cole handle his Christmas correspondence more efficiently.

But you are using one of the greatest inventions ever made ... 1882: Developing the lighting system Thomas Edison focused on the entire lighting grid, showing that it was possible to distribute ...

I couldn’t help but wonder how director Jithin Issac Thomas convinced his team to embark on such an unconventional project. I mean, what could he have possibly told them in the first place? That he is ...