It's the first day of school and Greg Kinnear, as a college engineering professor, writes the word "ethics" on the blackboard for his students to ponder. Obviously, this will be important to this ...

"Flash of Genius" is the true story of Kearns v. Ford Motor Co. At least for the last half-hour it is. It takes a full 90 minutes for the actual lawsuit -- the climax of nebbishy engineering professor ...

Some people just have a natural creative spark, they're constantly thinking of ways to solve problems and designing new contraptions to remedy the problems. When Robert Kerns, a loving father and ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - "Flash of Genius" may not be the sexiest film to debut this fall, but its true tale of the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers poses a timely question of values and ethics ...

It's the first day of school and Greg Kinnear, as a college engineering professor, writes the word "ethics" on the blackboard for his students to ponder. Obviously, this will be important to this ...

A lifelong math-phobe who grew up in a house full of engineers, I was apprehensive about the premise behind “Flash of Genius.”‘ American Century Classic participant Greg Kinnear plays the hero, Dr.

Joseph Regenstein invented the window envelope. Richard Drew invented Scotch Tape. And a man named Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper. It's an unheralded bit of technology, but ...

"Flash of Genius" director Marc Abraham admits that he suffered a few snickers when he initially pitched the life story of Detroit inventor Robert Kearns to Hollywood. "There was a bit of 'It's a ...

Dr. Robert Kearns built a better windshield wiper. The world, as the old mousetrap proverb goes, did not beat a path to his door. That's because the Ford Motor Company stole it from him. "Flash of ...