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Inventing Green: Inventor Profiles

Contemporary inventors in diverse fields are committed to "inventing green." Here are a few of their stories . . .

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Innovative Lives: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also writes books about invention for kids.

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IMPACT: The Evolution of Football Helmets

The Lemelson Center and SportTechie collaborated to produce IMPACT, featuring interviews with representatives from the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, professors and engineers from helmet research labs at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, helmet manufacturers Vicis and Riddell, and former NFL players Shawn Springs and Eric Winston.

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Panel 2 and Roundtable Discussion

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Fact and Fiction

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Keynote and Panel 1

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

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SportTechie Podcast: Lemelson Center Deputy Director Jeff Brodie

Jeff Brodie, Deputy Director of the Lemelson Center, discussed the Center's multiyear effort to study invention, sport, technology, and society on the SportTechie podcast.

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Military Invention Day 2017 Highlights

Missed Military Invention Day 2017? Here are some highlights from this great festival—mark your calendars for 2018!

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SXSWedu Podcast: Inspiring Student Innovation through Competitions

This session at SXSWedu in March 2017 was rated as one of the five best. Listen to what Lemelson Center head of education Tricia Edwards had to say about teaching the “4Cs of 21st Century Skills” in dynamic ways.

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Teenage Inventor Alexis Lewis Thinks That Kids Have the Solutions to the World’s Problems

Alexis Lewis, a teenage inventor with a patent to her name and more likely on the way, wants children across the country to know that an inventor isn’t something you have to be when you grow up; they can be one now. From Smithsonian.com (2015)

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America as a Place of Innovation: Great Inventors and the Patent System

On 16 February 2017, the Lemelson Center, the USPTO, and the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property hosted a panel discussion that explored the history of innovation and the broader social, political, and legal context in which it occurred in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Speakers adressed the historical role of patents, research-intensive startups, litigation, and licensing in an important period of disruptive innovation.

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Innovative Lives: Lonnie Johnson

Dr. Lonnie Johnson has devoted his life to solving some of the world’s most complex technological problems.

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New Orleans, Louisiana: Higgins Boats

During World War II, Higgins Industries grew to over 20,000 workers to meet demand.

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Make48 at the Lemelson Center

Highlights of Make48, the 48 hour invent-a-thon challenge, 10-12 June 2016, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center. Video by Alden Miller of Alchemy.

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Video Lecture: The Early American Daguerreotype

Author and former Lemelson Center fellow Sarah Kate Gillespie discusses her new book on the history of the daguerreotype.

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Can Prosthetics Outperform Real Limbs? - Wired.com

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains to Wired.com how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.

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