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festivals

How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long, Local History

In June 2023, Milwaukeeans celebrated 150 years of typewriter history.
Jennifer Byrne July 5, 2023
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Velorama National Bicycle Museum

The only bicycle museum in the Netherlands charts the invention of the now-ubiquitous two-wheeled machine.
Westborough, Massachusetts

Birthplace of Eli Whitney

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.
Memorial plaque
Berlin, Germany

Herta Heuwer Currywurst Memorial

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.
Käthe Paulus, circa 1890
Berlin, Germany

Käthe Paulus Memorial

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.
Cars from the family's collection
West Orange, New Jersey

Glenmont

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.
Pelling in the kitchen with asparagus, the veggie that inspired his work on spinal cord injuries.
science

The Biophysicist Transforming Asparagus Into Medical Implants

A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration.
Cari Shane August 4, 2021
Santa Clara, California

John J. Montgomery Obelisk

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.
Granville T. Woods, pictured in an 1895 issue of <em>The Cosmopolitan</em>.
science

Sold: An 1891 Patent by Granville T. Woods, Innovative Black Engineer

Woods was prolific, but was largely forgotten for many years after his death.
Matthew Taub July 22, 2020
Alfred Nobel's Grave
Stockholm, Sweden

Alfred Nobel's Grave

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.
Permanently Closed
San Francisco, California

Benkyodo

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.
The stained glass over the restaurant's bar.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Cafe Royal

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.
Four men in boater hats enjoy a last drink together before Prohibition begins in 1919.
bars

How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors

New research reveals the link between bars and new inventions.
Alex Mayyasi September 4, 2019
Wilson Greatbatch's tool box.
Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
Rhönraddenkmal Schönau an der Brend in winter.
Schönau an der Brend, Germany

Rhönrad-Denkmal Schönau (Schönau Gyrowheel Monument)

A memorial to a dizzying sports device and its creator.
Asa Jackson’s Perpetual Motion Machine
Clinton, Tennessee

Asa Jackson’s Perpetual Motion Machine

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.
Ralph Baer Memorial.
Manchester, New Hampshire

Ralph Baer Memorial

This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.
Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun was a renowned supporter of the sciences.
objects of intrigue

3 Brothers From Baghdad and Their Remarkable 9th-Century Book of Inventions

A prescient relic of the Islamic Golden Age.
Jonny Keen April 2, 2019