Our annual symposium, New Perspectives on Energy Innovation, convened in October 2023.
The archive of outdoor enthusiast and inventor Leonard Karr features kayaks, decoys, and other technologies originally developed by Indigenous Peoples...
In honor of Earth Day, the Lemelson Center celebrates inventors whose problem-solving has resulted in greener, more sustainable energy solutions.In...
There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt...
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...
Birds are singing, the sun is shining, flowers are blooming, the weather is warm (or even downright hot), and the pandemic continues to encourage us...
Sunil CherianSunil Cherian, the founder and CEO of Spirae, Inc. in Fort Collins, Colorado, works on smart grid technology that balances variations in...
In June, I traveled to Yerevan, Armenia as part of My Armenia, an initiative of the Smithsonian and the United States Agency for International...
On a hot summer morning, I walk into the National Zoo. Just inside the Connecticut Avenue entrance to the park I’m greeted by a giant parrotfish. I’m...
At Kansas City’s science center, Science City, guests learn about fossil fuel emissions, water conservation, and sustainable energy. While these...
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century...
This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction...
Charlotte Cramer Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1907. In 1924, she moved to New York, and in 1945, she married Alexander Sachs, an...
As anyone with a dog knows, finding an indestructible toy for your pooch can be nearly impossible. After coming home from work last week to find that...
