Inventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas .

History Abreugraphy receives its name from its inventor, Dr. Manuel Dias de Abreu, a Brazilian physician and pulmonologist.

His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990).

In 1834, British inventor James Sharp began to commercially produce gas ovens after installing one in his own house.

Cartwright was officially declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball by the 83rd United States Congress on June 3, 1953.

In 1992 Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura invented the first efficient blue LED, and four years later, the first blue laser.

The inventor Peter Dearman initially developed a liquid air car, and then used the technology he developed for grid energy storage.

During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834.

Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab from smart rope to a house sized kite for towing large loads.

Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence of vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool tale of invention.

The next young inventor seeking to help the environment just might come from Niger. Meet Abdou Barmini, 22, who invented an anti pollution device that cleans the air from industrial fumes.

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice system.

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.

Around 550 AD, Yin Gui was the first in China to write of the overflow or constant level tank added to the series, which was later described in detail by the inventor Shen Kuo.

What we really want is that this innovation happens continuously. The inventor and engineers and also the manufacturers and everybody works at the same time, but this would be sterile if this was happening in a parallel and uncrossed process.

Frederick Walker Baldwin (January 2, 1882 August 7, 1948), also known as Casey Baldwin, paternal grandson of Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, was a hydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed.

Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he s developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to solve problems while honoring the human spirit has never been more clear.

Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores for the first time.

He has now joined the eCars Now! movement, and his eSmart car will be upgraded with the open source graphical user interface being developed for the eCorolla in Finland.

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling the pop up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

Third and in large part a consequence of the other two the rise of the professional inventor and the industrial research laboratory created a class of people whose business was not to make and apply a single invention, but to invent the process of continuous and constant invention and innovation itself.