This year we celebrate 50 years since the launch of Skylab, America’s first manned space station.There is nothing more exciting than a real-life...
I was personally involved in this invention story. It solved an unrecognized problem that emerged in 1968 and was such a new issue that no one foresaw...
The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies...
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...
One of the best aspects of my job is meeting inventors from myriad fields who always have inspiring stories to share about their lives and inventive...
Well, we’re just about halfway through November and the streets are filled with beards—all for a good cause. Whether participating in Movember or No...
I venture to guess that when most people hear “rocket scientist” either they envision a man wearing a lab coat or think of the phrase “It’s not rocket...
As one of the Apollo astronauts quipped dismissively while at work on the surface of the moon, "If you’ve seen one Earth, you [have] seen them all."...
David Gittens, inventor of the award-winning Ikenga gyroplane, does not confine his creativity to aircraft. His professional work encompasses fashion...
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...
As part of the Lemelson Center's Innovative Lives series, astrophysicist George Carruthers talked to middle-school students about being a real-life...
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...
