Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century. Although she was described as the "Chinese Marie Curie,"...
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...
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...
When was the typewriter invented? Let me offer a hint. The first printing press that used movable type (made of porcelain) was invented in the 1040s...
It’s 11:45 p.m. local time when I land in Delhi, India. After nearly 20 hours of traveling, I’m happy to have arrived at my final destination. (I’m...
I was saddened to read about the death last month of Paolo Soleri, the Italian-American architect who was one of the godfathers of the eco-city...
From time to time in earlier columns, I have reported on the rising global phenomenon of eco-cities, an urban innovation touted as one of the...
Note: “Try It” refers to a step in the invention process – testing your product. This post is not an endorsement of any product.
A few weeks ago, I...
Asian people have been inventors and innovators for many centuries. The Chinese, for example, developed gunpowder, the compass, and spaghetti. We...
When we first began to document invention at the Lemelson Center, we were uncertain about what we might find. No one, to our knowledge, really had a...
"Engineers have to invent things, because that's their job, to develop something as a solution to a problem."As a graduate student at the...
America owes its fascination with the yo-yo mainly to Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr., who spotted it while on a business trip to San...
Although he holds four patents for the Silver Falcon, a robot used for heart surgery, and has other patents pending, Akhil Madhani does not think of...
Every hour, more than 400 children in the developing world die from water-borne diseases. Now there is hope that many children's lives will be saved...
