inventions

George C. Hale served as the Chief of the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department, for 31 years. At the end of the 19th century, he revolutionized firefighting with his more than 60 patented inventions, including the Hale Water Tower and the telephone fire alarm, and helped bring the country's fire departments into the modern era.

Students at The Kansas State School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kansas, participated in the public television competition Make48, where teams have just two days to prototype, build and present their invention.

Musician Camry Ivory wondered what it would be like to paint with music, so she invented an instrument that lets an artist create a painting and compose a song at the same time.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker talks about Kevin Strickland and the development of the county's new detention center, and a local competition winner whose ideas could protect thousands of children.

A local young inventor is poised for the global stage with her life-saving invention, for which she won this year's Kansas City Invention Convention.

Segment 1: How the invention of velcro inspired a scientific discipline.Learn about bio-mimicry, where scientists use to solve modern day problems with…

After her neighbor’s house was struck by lightning, Julia Luetje, an eleven-year old from Leawood, Kansas developed a fear of thunderstorms.“I’m afraid of…

Segment 1: How people in the Midwest cope when they have a fear of storms.Spring in the Midwest means blooming flowers and warmer weather ... and also…

Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards, Inc., gets credit for starting the modern-day gift wrap industry in 1917 an invention created out of necessity during the holiday season.

Everyone hates stale potato chips, but that little annoyance was the inspiration that got Mark Shaw thinking about how to reseal the bag. Since then,…

The basic technology of the crutch, Max and Liliana Younger knew, hadn’t changed since the Civil War.But when Max’s father became a permanent crutch user…

When you tell people you're an inventor, it conjures up images of a mad scientist slaving away in a lab. But what's it really like to be an inventor in…