Here´s why you´ve never heard of the other person who invented the telephone -- Did you know that there was another person who tried to patent a different version of the telephone on the very same day as Bell in 1876?

Screen Doors for Submarines and Lead Balloons: 20 of the craziest inventions of all time -- Can you guess which of these inventions were actually patented, and which ones were left on the cutting room floor - sending the inventor back to the old drawing board?

The case of the missing Monkey -- Why would the fourth Monkey skip the reunion tour?

Would Mark Twain have preferred to be an inventor rather than a writer? -- Did you know that Mark Twain was highly involved with inventions, both as an inventor himself and as an investor in other people´s inventions?

Meet Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all -- During his lifetime, Thomas Edison was issued more than 1,000 patents.

The inventor didn´t regret missing out on an $8 million fortune -- Sometimes a business deal works out well for one person but not the other.

Meet Jerome Lemelson, the most prolific inventor of the modern era -- In all of history, there are only two inventors who have held more patents than Jerome Lemelson: Thomas Edison and Edwin Land, of Polaroid fame.

Meet Inventor Stanley Mason, who sold his first invention at the age of seven -- What did Stanley Mason have in common with Thomas Edison and Jerome Lemelson?

What kept these inventors from obtaining patents on their own? -- Did you know the United States Patent Office does not have an age requirement for receiving a patent?

What inventions have come from Iraq? -- Did you know Iraq is the birthplace of many of the world´s most important inventions and developments?

Celebrate Black History Month with these inventors -- So who invented Black History Month? And why was February chosen as the month to celebrate it?

Inventiveness takes wing
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it an insect? Call the flying toy anything you want, says Sean Frawley, an Embry-Riddle student who invented the gizmo.

Retiree has high hopes for sea wall device
Herb Ackerman got out of bed and scribbled a bit, and the next morning scribbled some more, until the mechanics of his idea slowly began to resolve themselves.

Scientists, students in touch with area resources
There is a cornucopia of inventiveness throughout Southeast Volusia on ways to save the environment, use the sun for electricity, and to impart the importance of maintaining and protecting resources.

Cheyenne brought the fun when she showed up at Discovery Days Institute of Learning in Edgewater with a homemade hovercraft. (Photo: News-Journal/Matt Kane)

Pupils learn by inventing
Kids invent the darndest things. Take 10-year-old Emily Kemp. She was tired of tripping over her pet´s loose food and water dishes scattered on the floor, so she invented the Multi-Pet Feeding Station.

Working with nifty ideas
As long as there are people willing to attempt to turn ideas into reality instead of settling for the status quo, new products or techniques will continue to flow to the marketplace.