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Arielle Rausin’s Invention Fits Like a Glove

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

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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.

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Creating and Shaping Learning Environments

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

Encouraging Innovative Thinking

Because Everyone Is Inventive

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

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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 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.

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.

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.

Invention Stories

Mike Augspurger: Handcycle Inventor

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

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."

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.

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