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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a fun and effective piano learning tool for the various elements of music theory," said an inventor, from Billings, Mont., "so I invented ...
As a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, my learning often began once school was dismissed. On any given day, I could be found disassembling machines—stripping lawn mowers down to parts, then ...
Sylvan Learning, the leading provider of personal learning for students in grades K-12, is providing a variety of crafts and experiments for families to complete together on Kid Inventors’ Day, Jan.
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith will share the Charles Stark Draper Prize for the invention of the charge-coupled device, the light-sensitive component at the heart of many imaging systems. Five ...
Janet Emerson Bashen is an inventor, entrepreneur and business consultant. In 2006, Bashen became the first African-American woman to hold a U.S. patent for a software invention. Bashen’s LinkLine ...
Shirley Ann Jackson led research to develop caller ID and call waiting functions while working at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1970s. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a ...