Are you familiar with the name Alice Parker? Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas. Before that, people used firewood and ...

1. Geography played a part in spurring innovation at the Mayo Clinic, which opened its doors in 1889 in Rochester, Minn. Out of the shadow of the leading medical centers in Baltimore, Boston and New ...

Historian Harold Evans talks about great inventions by Americans. Evans' book, They Made America, profiles well-known inventors, and some obscure... Book Looks at Inventors and Obscure Geniuses ...

In “Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them,” John Bainbridge Jr. chronicles the rise of America’s greatest gunmakers—among them Colt, Remington, Winchester and, ...

COATESVILLE — You’ve had this nagging idea that you think might change the world and make you a load of dough. But where to start – what to do – with what might turn into your Edison-like invention?