Contemporary inventors serve as role models for the next generation.
In 2015, elite wheelchair marathoner Arielle Rausin didn’t realize that a 3D printing assignment for college would change her game. She had spent...
Livestock animals, specifically horses, do not exactly have an ID card in their pocket or wear a collar like smaller domestic pets do (yes, one could...
On April 14, 2021, Marilyn Hamilton, co-inventor of the Quickie wheelchair, spoke with National Museum of American History curator Katherine Ott about...
Living in downtown Washington, DC, during the pandemic means that every day there is news of yet another local restaurant closing its doors. I hear...
Like many Americans, I'm traveling across time zones for the holidays, going to California to celebrate Christmas with family and then flying back to...
Last year, Luis von Ahn won the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which honors outstanding mid-career inventors who are improving the world...
One of my favorite artifacts in the museum is the first computer mouse, which is currently on display in the Silicon Valley section of Places of...
Graphic designer Susan Kare is the “woman who gave the Macintosh a smile.”1 She is best known for designing the distinctive icons, typefaces, and...
The built environment that surrounds us is a serious matter, especially to Elaine Ostroff (1933–). An educator, advocate, problem solver, and...
Last summer, Spark!Lab hosted three interns to work on family learning and access projects. I wanted them to work with the staff and volunteers to...
It seemed like a simple, straightforward publication request: please write a 1,000 word biography about Percy LeBaron Spencer, the inventor of the...
Sports and innovation has been a subject of great interest to the Lemelson Center that we highlight as part of our 2016-2020 strategic planning...
Stephen B. Adams, Lemelson Center fellow during the Fall of 2015. His research project is entitled “Before the Garage: The Beginnings of Silicon...
Gerardo Con Diaz, Lemelson Center Fellow and PhD. candidate at Yale University, delivers this month's colloquium talk, "Intellectual Property and...
When Al Gore* invented the Internet, never could he have envisioned that it would become the existence-augmenting system it has become.
Just this...
A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered...
