Bruce Rittmann’s face beams with the pride of a new father as he points to a photograph on his computer screen of a vibrant red, “beautiful biofilm,” an integral part of his invention. For Rittmann, ...

Learn how Ralph Teetor invented cruise control and changed modern driving despite losing his sight at a young age.

In the 1880s, Granville T. Woods won patent battles to protect his inventions, including a system to allow moving trains to ...

The era between 1901 and 1920 saw an influx of Black inventors in realms including science and engineering. While some of these inventors have become household names—George Washington Carver, for ...

Georges El-Howayek, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is quick to remind about the intent of the student inventions heralded by Valparaiso University’s College of Engineering ...

Christopher Fuller scored a breakthrough at his Honeywell lab in Plymouth, devising a way to transmit wireless power over long distances. Honeywell International estimated it could wrangle $1 billion ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) — A Northeast Ohio engineer is being credited with an invention that could revolutionize how jet engines and rockets are made. For the past nine years, Tim Smith has worked as a ...

Humans are curious by nature, sharing an inherent thirst for knowledge to better both ourselves and humanity as a whole. Yet it takes a brilliant mind to harness that knowledge and use it to invent ...

Since she was a child, Skylynn Kilfoil Greaves, of Freeport, has wanted to build products that would help improve the lives of the people around her. As the daughter of a legally blind father and ...