Sir David McMurtry, who has died aged 84, was an Irish-born engineer-inventor who co-founded Renishaw, one of the UK’s most innovative hi-tech manufacturers. In 1972, McMurtry was a young design ...

The era between 1901 and 1920 saw an influx of Black inventors in realms including science and engineering. While some of these inventors have become household names—George Washington Carver, for ...

On a rainy day in Detroit, a Ford engineer got confused, then soaked—and inspired. It took decades before he got any credit.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lil’ Libros Publishing has acquired world rights to a bilingual five-board book STEAM series, Dr. Ochoa’s Stellar World, researched and written by Ellen Ochoa, American ...

Norman Crabill, a retired NASA Langley engineer, is well into his ninth decade but keeps busy with projects. As an inventor and a part-time employee at VíGYAN, an aerospace research firm in Hampton, ...

Startling revelations with regard to the invention of the Zeppelin, of which the ZR-3 is the latest development, were made today by Madam Melanie Schwartz, the widow of Engineer David Schwartz, to the ...

[Dave Walker/The Daily Pennsylvanian] Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the Segway -- a self-balancing human transporter -- to onlookers who attended his talk in Levine Hall. Human Transporter inventor ...

May 2 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Black Canadian-American engineer and inventor Elijah McCoy, who made great strides in improving train efficiency, with a new Doodle. Google's homepage features ...

Stephen Zgonce, a self-taught engineer and inventor of mechanical equipment who lived most of his life in Niagara Falls and Lewiston, died Wednesday (June 13, 2001) in Schoellkopf Health Center, ...

They are creators, improvers and doers — out-of-the-box thinkers whose efforts often better our daily lives. The University of Delaware currently is home to more than 225 such inventors, and has had ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS — Eric Schwartz's first invention was inspired by an errant golf shot. His second followed a trip to the mall with his wife, and a third came after an outing to Costco with a friend ...

ON THE 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Babbage, we retrace the footsteps of the brilliant but irascible British inventor, mathematician and engineer. Host Kenneth Cukier investigates why ...