Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on ...

Ralf Rückauer, VP of ZDFE.unscripted, talks to TV Real about Great Inventions, a series spotlighting the greatest inventions of mankind that was initiated, self-commissioned and fully financed by ZDF ...

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Let there be light within the bowels of a combine. Blue LED light is a non-chemical weapon capable of stunting the growth of herbicide-resistant weed seeds, but what if LED technology could be ...

During a Thursday meeting with Kenosha, Wis., community leaders, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that a Black man, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the light bulb. "People fear that ...

ZDF Enterprises is working with production partners on a new series that spotlights the greatest inventions of mankind. Great Inventions is planned to be a long-running series explaining what lies ...

A Des Moines metro student has an invention that could help people escape a burning building faster, and he's won a national award for it that should help him get a patent. The "Fire Safety Light" ...

Unlike the image of inventors being solitary figures inside a garage or basement, that's mostly not the case. In an era where innovation and entrepreneurship are prized concepts, the term “inventor” ...