In honor of Earth Day, the Lemelson Center celebrates inventors whose problem-solving has resulted in greener, more sustainable energy solutions.In...
Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century. Although she was described as the "Chinese Marie Curie,"...
During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created entirely new industries while...
Throughout American history, women with diverse backgrounds and interests created inventions that change our lives every day.
Since 2011, in partnership with Cricket Media, we have invited young inventors (5 to 18 years old) to take on a real-world problem, come up with...
Travel to Collections Awardees (2020)Sarah Barnes (2020), Georgia Institute of TechnologyBarnes’ research project will trace shifting sleep...
In the early 1930s, India was in the midst of great change: politically, to end British rule; economically, with industrialization; and educationally...
The Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge, hosted with Cricket Media's ePals portal, is underway! Participants learn the Spark!Lab invention...
Sunil CherianSunil Cherian, the founder and CEO of Spirae, Inc. in Fort Collins, Colorado, works on smart grid technology that balances variations in...
On January 31, the Lemelson Center in collaboration with Cricket Media launched its 7th annual invention competition. Not only does it offer students...
“As I sat on the deck of the ship which was taking me [back to] Europe . . . I thought of the day when, nine years before, I had arrived on the...
Fifty years ago, in September 1966, an unassuming engineer heading a research group at the defense contractor Sanders Associates in New Hampshire hand...
When Joe Gerber immigrated to America in 1940, he was certainly in a hurry. Escaping Nazi Austria, he rushed out of the country with his mother and...
Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999) and Marion O’Brien Donovan (1917-1998) have three things in common: both were inventors, both have collections in the...
