Everyman, tycoon in competition to develop TV at heart of The Farnsworth Invention

History suggests the answer is complicated, but writer Aaron Sorkin offers his fictionalized take in The Farnsworth Invention. Gallery Players will stage the Broadway drama beginning Saturday in the Jewish Community Center’s Roth/Resler Theatre.
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Invention of the Week? Medi-Pod Could Help Save Lives in War Zones

Transporting blood and organs is normally done with the aid of ambulances, motorbikes, or even helicopters. But could it all be done more quickly and efficiently while delivering them over battlefields or into areas where natural disasters occurred?
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‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery

You will be forgiven if, upon completing Bruce Holsinger’s novel “The Invention of Fire,” you decide that the author spent his early years in late 14th-century London, later to be magically transported to our own time. Holsinger is a scholar of the …
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Dazzling Short Film About An Alchemist Whose Invention Feeds On Memories

John Hurt voices a dead alchemist in the gorgeously animated short film The Alchemist’s Letter. A young man arrives at his late father’s lab and learns all about his father’s invention, a device that can turn objects into gold, but at the price of …
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Roanoke native’s invention helping solve criminal cases faster

this is so obvious someone’s already done this but no one had done it quite the same way.” Tonight we’re hearing from Robert Cody. The Roanoke-native and Roanoke College graduate is now known around the world for his invention. This machine is taking …
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MIT invention makes ocean water drinkable with a little help from the sun

From plants to people, every living thing on this planet needs water. But getting enough to survive, and survive comfortably, that can be a little tricky. Just look at the furor around California’s new water restrictions. If a state as wealthy as …
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