On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

The Movie Invention: An adorable little robot whose sole purpose is to do the cleaning. In Wall-E , he’s been left on an abandoned Earth shifting through all the rubbish we humans left behind. What We ...