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Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that ...

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The "radical concept" was invented in Rugby by scientist Dennis Gabor, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his idea in ...

A five-time world champion jump roper, Molly Metz of Louisville, Colorado, created a jump rope in the early 2000s to help her ...

Chindōgu is the Japanese practice of inventing things that are not exactly useful but neither are they useless; they’re more ...

These are some of the women behind the technologies that make our modern world go round, from WiFi to windshield wipers.

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