Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
Since 1995, the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center has been investigating the history of invention and innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Books in the Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation extend this work to enhance public understanding of humanity’s inventive impulse. Authors in the series raise new questions about the work of inventors and the technologies they create, while stimulating cross-disciplinary dialogue. By opening channels of communication between the various disciplines and sectors of society concerned with technological innovation, the Lemelson Center Studies advance scholarship in the history of technology, engineering, science, architecture, the arts, and related fields, and disseminate it to a general interest audience.
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American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
ISBN: 9780262542586
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions.
Handprints on Hubble
An Astronaut's Story of Invention
ISBN: 9780262539647
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 1, 2020
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.
Beyond Bakelite
Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
ISBN: 9780262538695
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.”
Does America Need More Innovators?
ISBN: 9780262536738
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Internet Alley
High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
ISBN: 9780262516686
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 23, 2011
How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world's Internet management and governance.
Power Struggles
Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison
ISBN: 9780262516167
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
The development of electrical technologies that laid the foundation for Edison's work: their invention, commercialization, and adoption.
The Color Revolution
ISBN: 9780262017770
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 31, 2012
A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
ISBN: 9780262517263
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2012
The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.
Inventing for the Environment
ISBN: 9780262633284
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 23, 2005
Essays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
ISBN: 9780262542586
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions.
Handprints on Hubble
An Astronaut's Story of Invention
ISBN: 9780262539647
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 1, 2020
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.
Beyond Bakelite
Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
ISBN: 9780262538695
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.”
Does America Need More Innovators?
ISBN: 9780262536738
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Internet Alley
High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
ISBN: 9780262516686
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 23, 2011
How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world's Internet management and governance.
Power Struggles
Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison
ISBN: 9780262516167
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
The development of electrical technologies that laid the foundation for Edison's work: their invention, commercialization, and adoption.
The Color Revolution
ISBN: 9780262017770
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 31, 2012
A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
ISBN: 9780262517263
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2012
The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.
Inventing for the Environment
ISBN: 9780262633284
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 23, 2005
Essays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.