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A young blonde woman sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a red tank top, and holding up a 3D printed racing glove.
Blog

Arielle Rausin’s Invention Fits Like a Glove

Wheelchair marathoner Arielle Rausin invented 3D printed gloves that helped her race faster for longer.

A whole Margherita pizza
Blog

An Innovative Pizza Place

We asked Mozzeria, a newly opened Deaf-owned, Deaf-led pizza shop in Washington, DC, about being innovative during a pandemic.

Detail of a photo of Elaine Ostroff, on left, with two other women, looking at a model of a play space. The words Play Room are on the door behind Ostroff.
Blog

Creating and Shaping Learning Environments

“It can happen anywhere—a learning environment can happen anywhere.” (Elaine Ostroff, Wheaton College interview, undated)

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Encouraging Innovative Thinking

Because Everyone Is Inventive

The Spark!Lab team makes a commitment to inclusion and accessibility.

Tennis racket used by Althea Gibson
Blog

Exploring Sports and Innovation at the Lemelson Center

“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” This often paraphrased quote inspired me to think about the “how” in terms of sports and innovation.

Invention Stories

Voting for All

Dr. Juan Gilbert is an inventor working to making voting accessible to all.

Invention sketch of accessible snowboard
Invention Stories

Inventive Minds: Everyone Is Inventive

Throughout American history, inventors and innovators have used their imaginations to create, improve, and promote inventions and innovations that shape our everyday lives. Explore their stories in the Inventive Minds gallery.

Inventor Krysta Morlan uses her Waterbike in the pool
Invention Stories

Krysta Morlan: Waterbike Inventor

While still in high school, Krysta Morlan invented the Waterbike—a semi-submersible, fin-propelled vehicle powered by the rider’s legs.

Photo of Matt Capozzi and Nathan Connelly with a prototype accessible snowboard
Invention Stories

Matt Capozzi and Nathan Connolly: Accessible Snowboard Inventors

While in college, these inventors designed a snowboard that works for people who can't use their legs.

Rear view of a cyclist traveling downhill on Augspurger’s handcycle
Invention Stories

Mike Augspurger: Handcycle Inventor

Mike Augspurger—a mountain biker and bicycle builder—created an innovative all-terrain handcycle for wheelchair athletes.

US stamp commemorating the 1932 Winter Olympic Games.
Invention Stories

Faster, Higher, Stronger: Science and Engineering Behind the Olympic Winter Games

You tune into the Olympics to watch feats of athleticism, strength, grace, and endurance. But don't forget about the feats of technology!

Research Opportunities

Universal Design and the Museum: Technological Developments

In her third and final post, Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie discusses some of the technological features of accessibility at the National Museum of American History.

Research Opportunities

Universal Design and the Museum: Sensory Features

Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie discusses some of the design features of museum exhibits that incorporate sensory information appealing to sight, touch, sound, and even smell!

Research Opportunities

Universal Design and the Museum

Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie looks at the mobility features—meaning how the space is designed for people with disabilities, particularly wheelchair users, to move through it—in "America on the Move."

Photo of Van Phillips running using his invention, the Flex-Foot
Invention Stories

Innovative Lives: Artificial Parts: Van Phillips

How a tragic accident led to breakthroughs in prosthetic science.

Invention Stories

Innovative Lives: Mike Augspurger, Titanium Transformed

Mike Augspurger is an expert cyclist, a skilled machinist, and a designer and builder of bicycles. Augspurger, founder of One-Off Titanium, Inc., is a specialist in custom and unusual titanium frame bicycles, including the first all-terrain handcycle designed for wheelchair athletes.

A stylized drawing of a compact fluorescent light bulb surrounded by a solid orange circle with a green border
Symposia & Conferences

Living with Technology, Inside and Out

Over the last couple of years, the Lemelson Center has been looking at the variety of means invention mediates the interface between human beings and environment.

MIND database logo for Smithsonian-held archival materials
Archives

Safko International, Inc. Records, 1984-1996

Inventor Name Safko, Lon

MIND database logo for Smithsonian-held archival materials
Archives

Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar Innovative Lives Presentation, August 3, 2005

Inventor Name Hernandez-Rebollar, Jose L.

Logo for the Modern Inventors Documentation database, showing a stylized head with words like creativity and innovation written on different parts of the brain
Archives

John A. Cejnar Papers, 1917-1947

Inventor Name Cejnar, John A. Repository Indiana State Library140 N. Senate AvenueIndianapolis, IN 46204317-232-3675http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/ Physical Description 1 box.

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