Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine.

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She paused in the aisle of a Sainsbury’s supermarket to put a familiar product in her trolley: a £3 packet of eight Angel ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Popeil, the quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The man who spent five minutes writing the computer code that would bail out the world's PC users for decades is retiring today. David Bradley programmed one of the ...

(PEPPER PIKE, Ohio) — Here’s how Joltin’ Joe became Mr. Coffee. The creator of the famed coffee machines died Saturday at age 91, but one of his favorite stories was how he roped in the famed former ...

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