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Hour Two: Inventors and Inventing

A new year, a new start -- what better time to talk about new technology? Join Ira Flatow on the next Science Friday for a discussion of inventors, inventing, and how new technology and products enter the world. We'll talk about new widgets, gizmos, thingamajigs and doohickeys -- and the sometimes unsung people that create them. For instance - did you know that actress Hedy Lamarr recieved a patent on a secret communications system for submarines? (see an image here)

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Guests:
Arthur Molella
Director
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

Ethlie Ann Vare
Co-author, "Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and their Breakthrough Ideas" (Wiley, 2001)
Los Angeles, California

Ronald J. Riley
Inventor and Entrepreneur
President, Professional Inventors Alliance
Founder, InventorEd.org
Grand Blanc, Michigan

Books/Articles Discussed:

"Patently Female" by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek. Wiley, 2001. (find more SciFri books here)

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Related Links:

The Invention Dimension!
Explore Invention at the Lemelson Center
InventorEd.org
National Inventors Hall of Fame
United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
CBC4Kids: History of Inventions, a timeline from Pottery to Computers.

This segment produced by: Charles Bergquist