Women Inventors Do you know how many women inventors have changed the world? As you sip your morning coffee you probably don’t give any thought as to how the actual process of coffee brewing came to be. If it wasn’t for a frustrated housewife in Dresden, Germany, you...
The Great Depression spawned innovative businesses and risk takers like the Demolition Derby, which is still around today. It’s well known and loved as a low budget, rural, blue-collar type of entertainment. And it started with the deliberate car crash, pioneered by...
Television. What would we do without it? Thank goodness a series of inventors started thinking about it centuries ago with the invention of television. I’m sure, even as forward thinking as they were, they could never have imagined modern day streaming and...
Because of the nature of their jobs, many inventors are scientists and engineers. One scientist who was also an inventor was Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and microbiologist, who was known for his discovery of pasteurization and microbial fermentation. His germ...
What type of innovator are you? In 1962 the book “Diffusions of Innovations” came out. It was a phrase coined by communications professor Everett Rogers. It explains how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology is spread through cultures. Rogers...
