{"id":17836,"date":"2026-02-10T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/these-great-american-innovators-won-fame-but-not-fortune-from-their-inventions-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:24:52","slug":"these-great-american-innovators-won-fame-but-not-fortune-from-their-inventions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/these-great-american-innovators-won-fame-but-not-fortune-from-their-inventions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"These Great American Innovators Won Fame \u2014 But Not Fortune \u2014 From Their Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our upcoming ranking of America\u2019s 250 Greatest Innovators is aimed at those who were able to commercialize their innovations, but these less fortunate inventors also changed the world\u2014even though they didn\u2019t personally benefit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our upcoming ranking of America\u2019s 250 Greatest Innovators is aimed  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}