As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

Lee de Forest (1873-1961), the inventor of the "Audion" tube, who liked to call himself the "Father of Radio." De Forest grew up in Talladega, Alabama, where his father was the white president of ...

Who Was Blaise Pascal? Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, ...

A look at some of the great Scots and their world-famous inventions and discoveries. The legacy of James Clerk Maxwell — Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World ...

Hedy Lamarr, though better known for her beauty and career as a movie star, was a prolific inventor. She devised the frequency-hopping radio technology that WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS are based on.

You can thank risk-taking inventors for their numerous contributions to modern living. But behind many of these inventions were fantastic flops - things that either worked and didn't make succeed ...