by Elaine Luther | Jul 28, 2021 | Inventors
Tools for Making Popcorn Balls Have you ever had a popcorn ball? It’s basically popcorn, stuck together with white syrup, made into a ball. They used to be a classic homemade treat for Halloween. They’re less popular these days, probably because working...
by Elaine Luther | Jun 29, 2021 | Inventors
Photo Discovered of Inventor Margaret E. Knight! So many thanks to Laura Rankin of the Framingham Historical Society (Massachusetts) for finding and sharing this picture of inventor Margaret E. Knight! We’ll do a minisode to follow up on our podcast episode...
by Elaine Luther | Feb 10, 2021 | Inventors
Guest post author: Lily Does your house have a security system? Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security systems which made the homes of so many people safer! Born on October 20, 1922 in New York, she was an inventor and Nurse. Marie Van...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Inventors
Water guns, the telephone, caller ID, traffic lights with three lights – all things we take for granted today and probably never think about who invented them or what life was like before these wonderful inventions. Here are 7 Black American inventors and what...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Inventors
Women have always been inventive, even if we don’t always hear about it. Here are 7 things you use or encounter every single day, and probably didn’t know that a woman invented or co-invented it! Woven Clothing Elizabeth Wayland Barber, he author of...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 7, 2019 | Inventors
Sometimes, an invention is invented because someone makes an imaginative leap from one thing to another. That can be why a regular person comes up with a clever new innovation that the experts didn’t see—the expert is focused on their one area of expertise, that they...
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