January 31, 2013 | Ford Motor Company Fund
Ford Motor Company Fund today announced a $500,000 contribution to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and its Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The funds will be used to support and expand the Spark!Lab program challenging kids to create, collaborate and invent.
October 22, 2012 | Kate Wiley
Innovation in American elections has never been “politics as usual,” as audiences will learn when the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation presents “Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections” Nov. 2 – 3 at the National Museum of American History.
August 17, 2011 | Kate Wiley
The National Museum of American History will soon be undergoing renovations to its West exhibition wing. To prepare for construction, Spark!Lab—the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation’s hands-on invention activity center—will remain open through Oct. 6.
April 5, 2011 | Kate Wiley
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History today accepted donations relating to the development of autonomous mobile robots in the United States and its Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation unveiled National Robotics Week activities taking place in Spark!Lab, the center’s hands-on invention space in the museum, April 9 through April 16.
March 30, 2011 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presents NanoDays 2011, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering, April 1 to April 3.
March 23, 2011 | Kate Wiley
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is launching the Spark!Lab Outreach Kit Project, an effort to extend the reach of Spark!Lab—the center’s hands-on invention activity center—beyond the walls of the National Museum of American History.
January 7, 2011 | Kate Wiley
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will acquire a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony this evening at the Quiksilver All 80s All Day Vert Challenge.
October 18, 2010 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation has received a grant of $2.6 million from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support informal science education through the center’s “Places of Invention” exhibition project.
April 30, 2010 | Kate Wiley
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation today launched a collaborative design project with The Tech Virtual at the The Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif.
February 23, 2010 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presents NanoDays 2010, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering, March 27 to April 3.
November 6, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will explore "hot spots of invention"--areas where a critical mass of inventive people, networks, institutions, funding and other resources converge and creativity flourish--Nov. 6 and 7 when the center opens a new showcase display and hosts the "Hot Spots of Invention: People, Places and Spaces" symposium.
October 22, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press announce the release of "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age" by Kurt Beyer.
August 14, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation’s celebration of National Inventors' Month continues Aug. 15 at 11:30 a.m. when the center hosts Ralph Baer, commonly known as the father of the home video game. Baer will re-enact the first time he played his game Odyssey with his partner Bill Harrison and then answer questions from the audience about his life and work.
July 31, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and LEGO Systems, Inc. are celebrating National Inventors’ Month by hosting a two-day collaborative build of an 8-foot-tall light bulb made entirely of LEGO bricks Aug. 1 and 2 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
June 25, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation has published a new book, "The Spirit of Invention: The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation." Written by award-winning author and historian Julie M.
March 28, 2009 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents NanoDays 2009, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering, March 28 to April 5.
October 20, 2006 | Paul Rosenthal
On Thursday, November 2, at 7 p.m., the National Archives in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation celebrate the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth with a free program “Inventing America with Walter Isaacson,” hosted by the Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein. The program will be held in the William G.
October 9, 2006 | Paul Rosenthal
Throughout the history of the United States, Americans have valued and celebrated two key facets of our culture, democracy and technology. Indeed, Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were inventors as well as politicians. Even so, we seldom pause to consider how the interplay between democracy and technology helped shape our national culture and identity.
May 18, 2006 | Paul Rosenthal
There’s help for people that want to know about the beginnings of the bread slicer, the creation of the corn picker or the makings of the matchstick. A new database from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will show the public where to find these and thousands of other invention-related documents and collections.
July 6, 2005 | Paul Rosenthal
Biochemist Edgar Meyer’s Inventive Look at the Molecular World
