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Portrait painting of Charles Drew, wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope

Dr. Charles Richard Drew was a Black surgeon, professor, and blood transfusion and blood bank pioneer whose work has saved innumerable lives globally...

Military Invention Day logo: a pixelated head in profile surrounded by icons representing inventions

Come to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Saturday, May 19, to see leading-edge technologies from armed forces research, meet...

Logo for Military Invention Day showing a stylized head in profile with simple drawings of gears and many inventions trailing from the back of the head

[Note: Please click on the YouTube logo in the lower right corner of the video above to access closed captions in English. Here is the transcript:0:00...

William J. Hammer seated among his large collection of scientific and experimental apparatus

Electrical inventor William J. Hammer sent a spirited telegram to his daughter Mabel in New York with news that he had just been drafted into the...

Tappan Model RL-1 microwave oven

It seemed like a simple, straightforward publication request: please write a 1,000 word biography about Percy LeBaron Spencer, the inventor of the...

A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) created by Higgins Industries

This guest blog by Kimberly Guise, Curator at The National WWII Museum, and the video included therein was produced as part of The National WWII...

2015 Lemelson Fellow Stephen B. Adams

Stephen B. Adams, Lemelson Center fellow during the Fall of 2015. His research project is entitled “Before the Garage: The Beginnings of Silicon...

Hedy Lamarr

Actress Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) would have turned 101 on November 9th. In honor of her birthday, Google launched an animated Google Doodle of her life...

Stock image of insect repellent products on a store shelf.

Mosquitos are and always have been not only an annoyance, but also a major health risk. Mosquitos spread diseases such as Yellow Fever, Malaria, and...

WWII propaganda poster.

During our Inventing the Surveillance Society symposium on Oct. 25, we will be featuring World War II posters from the Archives Center in an “objects...

Edgerton's aerial recon system.

Many of us who work at the National Museum of American History have a favorite object or two. Mine is part of the photographic history collections. It...

Stephanie Kwolek in her lab

Imagine this. It is 1964. You are a chemist working in a research laboratory of a major company. Your boss has asked you to find new synthetic...

Inventor Hal Walker

One afternoon in the fall of 1939 in the small town of Alexandria, LA, a skinny six-year-old boy peeked shyly round the wide gate of a bus company...