Athletes as User Innovators

Recently, I discovered the work of scientific illustrator Roger Hayward (1899-1979) while looking at the C. L. Stong Papers. I discovered that, in...

Since March 2020, most Smithsonian staff members have been working from home, cut off from the collections many of us find so fascinating. This...

Inventors work everywhere, but many get started at home, using things they find around the house to prototype, or model and test, their inventions...

Throughout my teen years I was a big car nut. I loved sports cars but one thing I loved more was concept cars. The concept cars had a uniqueness that...

It is not uncommon in the museum to converse with a child about robots. Sometimes the conversation is about sci-fi or movie robots, but during my 14...