Inventors

Electricity will cure all the ills of the world, predicts Thomas Edison, whose inventive genius is responsible for the widespread application of electricity.

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Inventor, scientist, and architect are among the many titles that the brilliant and highly productive seventeenth century scientist Robert Hooke has been given. He was a man of many talents who made discoveries in diverse fields of science and technology.

Famous Inventors Kids: Looking for famous inventors kids will love discovering, too? These picture book biographies will get them thinking!

Time Magazine cover, Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) for Time’s 9th History Issue

Guglielmo Marconi’s Early Years Guglielmo Marconi was born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy. His father was a wealthy landowner and his mother was a member of Ireland’s Jameson family of distillers. Marconi was educated by tutors and at the Livorno Technical Institute and the University of Bologna. Did you know? In his Nobel Prize acceptance […]

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. When he was only eleven years old, he invented a machine that could clean wheat.

This past week we started wrapping up our study on Inventors & Inventions in Science/Social Studies. I guess I underestimated the interest my kids would have in the subject because they were SO into it!! We started by learning about a few very important inventors…Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and The Wright Brothers. We made …

Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was an American scientist and inventor. Among his most famous inventions are the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting light bulb. During his lifetime Edison held 1,093 U.S. patents, and he originated the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes and businesses. While creating inventions in episodes 1173 and 1397 of Sesame Street, Oscar remarks, "Thomas Edison, eat your heart out." In Episode 1363 of Sesame…

Most often the color palette that we associate with history is limited to black and white only. But have you ever imagined what did people, their outfits and backgrounds look like in real life - in color? Members of this one group on reddit, called r/ColorizedHistory, sure have: they pick historic photos that we have only seen in black and white, and bring them back to life by digitally coloring them.