As it turns out, most inventors, including the most groundbreaking, don't achieve success with every creation they devise. Curious? Click on for some lesser-known inventions by famous inventors.

Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954), the inventor of the "Regeneration" and "Superheterodyne" circuits as well as "Frequency Modulation," or FM. A flamboyant man with a fondness for fast cars and a ...

You can thank risk-taking inventors for their numerous contributions to modern living. But behind many of these inventions were fantastic flops - things that either worked and didn't make succeed ...

As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you’ll ...

In the 1930's, Nikola Tesla, who is known for creating the induction motor and refining AC currents, imagined a machine that would allow you to project a mental image in real life and play back ...

Women inventors account for just under 13% of patent applications globally, according to the study, by the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO). That's one female inventor for every seven male ...