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Found 23 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.

Norman Winarsky
Beyond Words

Podcast: Norman Winarsky Taps into Silicon Valley’s Culture of Innovation

At SRI International, Winarsky builds on the ground-breaking work of Douglas Engelbart, using computers to augment human ability.

Photograph of Stanley the driverless car
Invention Stories

Documenting Invention in the Digital Age

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

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

Anthony Levandowski
Beyond Words

Podcast: Anthony Levandowski Competes by Inventing

Inventing for competitions is Anthony Levandowski's grand challenge

Stan Winston sitting in a director's chair
Beyond Words

Podcast: Stan Winston Makes Robots Smart, Part 2 (of 2)

Stan Winston, a groundbreaking special effects artist, talks about his project with the MIT Media Lab to create robots with artificial intelligence.

Stan Winston sitting in a director's chair
Beyond Words

Podcast: Stan Winston Makes Movie Magic, Part 1 (of 2)

Stan Winston, a groundbreaking special effects artist, talks about his work on some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.

Tom Newby manipulating miniature figures on a movie set
Beyond Words

Podcast: Tom Newby Makes the Muppets Move

Tom Newby explains how he brought Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and countless other Muppets to life with his innovations in animatronics.

Beyond Words

Podcast: James McLurkin Explores Robot Communities

In an early Lemelson Center program, a young MIT researcher, James McLurkin, explains how his robots work like a group of ants.

Inventor Akhil Madhani
Invention Stories

Innovative Lives: The Heart of the Falcon: Akhil Madhani

MIT graduate Akhil Madhani developed the Silver Falcon, a robotic arm for doing heart surgery.

Inventor James McLurkin
Invention Stories

Innovative Lives: Question Everything and Never Give Up: The Story of Inventor James McLurkin

What turns geeks, dorks, and dweebs—fanatics of the attic and garage—into the movers and shakers of the world?

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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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Sylvanus Dyer Locke Papers, 1859-1942

Inventor Name Locke, Sylvanus Dyer

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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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Lillian Lidman Greneker Papers, n.d.

Inventor Name Greneker, Lillian Lidman

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