Our annual symposium, New Perspectives on Energy Innovation, convened in October 2023.
A symposium that explores the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 energy crisis, the present-day challenges associated with climate change, and the...
In honor of Earth Day, the Lemelson Center celebrates inventors whose problem-solving has resulted in greener, more sustainable energy solutions.In...
While helping to clean out the basement at my parent’s house, I stumbled upon some worksheets from when I was a kindergarten student. One sheet that...
Sunil CherianSunil Cherian, the founder and CEO of Spirae, Inc. in Fort Collins, Colorado, works on smart grid technology that balances variations in...
To cover for one of our staff members who left Spark!Lab, part-time members of our team have been working schedules with added shifts over the last...
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...
Surveys of collection backlogs are common place in the archival profession. Many repositories undertake them, using various methodologies and with...
Casey Cater’s research project is entitled "Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Making of the Modern South.” His research sits at the nexus of...
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...
Reddy was the brainchild in 1925 of Ashton B. Collins (1885–1976), then commercial manager at the Alabama Power Company. The company was looking for a...
So many of the sustainable environmental technologies of today hold promise but are distinctly futuristic--from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics and...
In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light Company unveiled the first large-scale electrical system in the world to light a stretch of...
Governments and corporations are spending billions of dollars today on research and development to find energy alternatives to oil. Some are even...
Growing up
Thomas Alva Edison (nicknamed Al) was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Edison was an inquisitive boy who began experimenting at...
