ROY L. SMITH

• Edward Hibberd Johnson hired Edison in 1871, and later invested in Edison's Lamp Company to sell bulbs, even though widespread electrification was still decades away.
• In 1882, in New York City, Edward Hibberd Johnson had an idea. While flickering flames were festive on a Christmas ...

The brainchild of IKEA is the late Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish businessman. He envisioned a store full of functional furniture that's easy to assemble.

He started his first business at age five. He bought matchbooks in bulk and sold them individually. When he was 10, he was ...

• The Hass avocado was named after Rudolph Hass who tried to graft different varieties of avocado into a seedling he brought home, but due to his futile attempts of making fruit, he left it alone.
• It were the Hass children who discovered the fruit of the avocado t...