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Found 15 Stories
Box Chronometer without Case circa 1825
Invention Stories

Invention, Time, and Navigation

How the sea clock changed navigation and timekeeping.

DO Try This at Home!

Create a Robotic Garden

Try your hand at inventing a robotic garden!

DARPA ARM Robot playing Simon
Beyond Words

Podcast: Jason Bannister: From Sketch to Robot

Artist and scientist Jason Bannister explores the invention process through his work designing robots.

A stylized drawing of a compact fluorescent light bulb surrounded by a solid orange circle with a green border
Invention Stories

From the Collections: Miniature Autonomous Robotic Vehicles

In addition to participating in NanoDays 2011, the Lemelson Center's Spark!Lab celebrated National Robotics Week during April with new robotics-related activities and a donation ceremony.

Photograph of Stanley the driverless car
Invention Stories

Documenting Invention in the Digital Age

How do you tell the story of ever-changing technology?

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Invention Stories

Akhil Madhani: Literally on the Cutting Edge of Robotics

"Engineers have to invent things, because that's their job, to develop something as a solution to a problem."

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Archives

Massie/McLurkin Innovative Lives Presentation, 1995; 1997

Inventor Name Massie, Thomas and James McLurkin

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Joseph Buchtel Papers, 1851-1864

Inventor Name Buchtel, Joseph Repository Oregon Historical Society1200 SW Park AvePortland, OR 97205-2843503-222-1741http://www.ohs.org/collections/index.cfm

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Barringer Family Papers, ca. 1812-1966

Inventor Name Barringer, Paul B.

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Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company Records, ca. 1888-1950

Inventor Name Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company Repository National Museum of American HistorySmithsonianDivision of History of TechnologyMRC 62912th Street & Constitution Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20560202-357-3188

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Sylvanus Dyer Locke Papers, 1859-1942

Inventor Name Locke, Sylvanus Dyer

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Lillian Lidman Greneker Papers, n.d.

Inventor Name Greneker, Lillian Lidman

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William P. Wiemann Papers, 1891-1931

Inventor Name Wiemann, William P. Repository Historical Society of Western PennsylvaniaLibrary and Archives Division1212 Smallman StreetPittsburgh, PA 15222412 454-6364http://www.pghhistory.org

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Winn Family Papers, 1780-1925

Inventor Name Winn, Philip James Repository Duke UniversityRare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections LibraryDurham, NC 27708-0185919-660-5822http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/

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Charles Adler, Jr. Collection, ca. 1920-1980

Inventor Name Adler, Charles

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