by Julie Austin | Mar 22, 2025 | Innovation
Innovation often arrives when you least expect it. Few stories capture the magic of unexpected discovery as vividly as the tale of Super Glue. This revolutionary adhesive was born from what appeared to be a failed experiment—yet it transformed entire industries and...
by Julie Austin | Dec 2, 2016 | Inventing, Uncategorized
Garrett Morgan proves that you don’t have to be a scientist or an engineer to be an inventor. You also don’t have to have a college degree. But there is one trait you must have if you want to be an inventor, and that’s curiosity. Garrett...
by Julie Austin | Sep 18, 2016 | Inventing, Uncategorized
Caresse Crosby lived the life of an upper class debutante in New York and Connecticut growing up. One night while she was dressing to go out to another ball, she put on her customary whalebone corset under her evening gown. Disappointed in the way it made her dress...
by Julie Austin | Mar 10, 2016 | Inventing
In keeping with Women’s History Month, I wanted to highlight women inventors who exemplify the phrase “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”. Marie Van Brittan Brown is one of those inventors. Marie was a nurse who didn’t keep regular...
by Julie Austin | Jul 28, 2015 | Inventing
Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Gettysburg Address and for abolishing slavery, but did you know he is also the only President to be an inventor and patent holder? In 1849 he filed a patent for a device that would help lift riverboats over sandbars, and two...
