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 ...

Johnson manually computed flight trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for NASA. She is best known for verifying the orbital calculations for John Glenn’s 1962 Friendship 7 mission.

Black women remain resilient and continue to offer creative, impactful inventions. Black women are innovators, coming up with great inventions that have transformed many sectors like health care and ...

SEATTLE - Did you ever wonder. . .where did the gas mask come from? Or, who came up with the traffic light? Garrett Morgan, a Black inventor invented both at the turn of the century. Many ...

Everyday routines often look ordinary until the history behind them comes into view. A warm house in January, groceries that survive a long truck route, safer elevator rides, a quick cataract ...

Black inventors and entrepreneurs have played a crucial role in shaping industries, improving daily life, and driving technological advancements, often overcoming systemic barriers to bring their ...

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

African-American innovators and visionaries have developed or contributed to many things that are commonplace today — some are well known such as the light bulb and others not so obvious such as blood ...

James Howard is using the past to inspire the future. He knows you've heard all about the Garden State's most famous inventor, the great Thomas Edison. But what about the number of innovators whose ...

Inventors come up with a lot of clever things to make our lives easier, but just imagine the world without this invention, so powerful, so fast, so fun -- the SuperSoaker.