Lemelson Center News Today

Cutting in front of someone who’s been waiting patiently in line used to be unethical, bad manners, taboo. Now, businesses are letting people pay for the privilege of skipping the line.

Cutting in front of someone who’s been waiting patiently in line used to be unethical, bad manners, taboo. Now, businesses are letting people pay for the privilege of skipping the line.

Humans for millennia siphoned the liquid pleasures of life between their lips through a hollow piece of grass — through straw. It took a 19th-century Americ ...

Marvin Stone, a Civil War veteran who survived combat wounds, patented the paper drinking straw in 1888. His invention has enjoyed a rebirth in the 21st century.

Col. Albert Pope brought high-wheeler bicycles to Boston in the 1870s; a Tudor-style Cohasset estate became his summer home.

Introduce your students to women who have helped shape the fields of physics, biology, computer science, and education but are often overlooked in our textbooks

REDWOOD — A traveling exhibit developed by the Smithsonian Institution that highlights innovation in rural communities features prominently Redwood’s Better Farm and its sister nonprofit, betterArts.

Samuel W. Franklin is a cultural historian and a postdoctoral researcher in human centered design at the Delft University of Technology. He has earned awards and fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the Hagley Library and Museum, the Hathi Trust Research Center, the Stanford Arts Institute, and Brown

April Happenings include an exciting new exhibition on the Disney Parks and a program looking at how

Former New Orleans Saints star receiver and entrepreneur Marques Colston will deliver the Homer Hitt Presidential Lecture on April 19 at the University of New Orleans.