The daughter of the inventor of Cluedo has told how her father missed out on a fortune despite inventing one of the world’s ...

When Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, he went down in history as the ‘inventor’ of a telecommunications system that forever changed the way we interact. When Matti Makkonen – AKA ‘the Father of SMS ...

In July 2025, a rumor spread online that a young inventor with 1.7 million social media followers had disappeared. Julian Brown, 21, of Georgia has purported to have created a low-cost, solar ...

A Singapore inventor of a space-saving door system wins a High Court lawsuit against rivals for passing off similar doors as ...

Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Grandjon's playful animated feature concerns the later years of the artist. By Frank Scheck It’s rare that animated films set out to be educational. But that is exactly ...

The engine that bears his name earned him a fortune in royalties, and the German engineer and inventor Rudolf Diesel was apparently doing well when he boarded a steamship from Belgium to England on ...

Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world's first cell phone call. He stood on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, with a 10-inch-long, 2.5 ...

The The Inventor tells the story of the spectacular rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The startup duped people into investing in a blood testing technology which never completely worked.

Tech pioneer David Monroe was without a will when he was killed in an accident in September at Port San Antonio.

Shortly before petroleum jelly inventor Chesebrough died in 1933, at the age of 96, he publicly claimed to ingest "more than a teaspoon" of Vaseline daily. However ... What's Undetermined We were ...

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