Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new electric power-drive accessory for a manual wheelchair," said an inventor, from Buffalo, N.Y., "so I invented the HELPING - HANZ. My ...

Frank Sprague, the engineer and inventor who is considered “The Father of Electric Traction,” is the subject of a new biography co-authored by William Middleton III, professor of ...

"Edison is always thinking," Dudley Nichols wrote. "That is one of the remarkable things about him." After more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

The light bulb wasn’t really Edison’s. The telephone wasn’t really Bell’s. In 2002, the ...