Camp Invention promotes skills, hands-on learning

HUNTINGTON – For the first time, Ona Elementary School is hosting Camp Invention, a summer program for first- to sixth-grade students that focus on creativity, innovation and real-world problem solving. The camp, which began Monday and continues through …
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The Farnsworth Invention

History has forgotten, then recalled, any number of claims and counter-claims about rival inventors of technical marvels. Who deserves credit for inventing calculus — Leibnitz, or Newton? (They seem to have created calculus independent from one another.
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‘My Million Dollar Invention’ review: Smithsonian channel begins ambitious eight-part series

WE ALL dream of the Big Idea, the one that will make us stupid rich. Most of those dreams just don’t involve inventing, say, the electric chair. Smithsonian’s ambitious new eight-part series tracks the development of several dozen inventions that did …
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East Texas judge’s invention: A method for hampering patent defendants

Federal courthouse and nearby buildings in Marshall, Texas. Nicolas Henderson For companies that get hit with lawsuits over obvious patents, the best chance they’ve got to fight back is last year’s Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. Now patent …
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Who Invented The Television? ‘My Million Dollar Invention’ Reveals The Complicated History Behind The World’s Greatest Innovations

We have it so easy these days. We can get news and entertainment just by turning on a TV, maintain our dental hygiene by brushing our teeth and go for a jog with the proper footwear to match. Life wasn’t always this simple. There was a time when the TV …
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Invention in Ithaca: 5 questions with Ithaca Generator

Editor’s Note: Friday marks the beginning of the “National Week of Making,” an initiative sponsored by the White House to encourage technology and innovation in communities across the United States. In Ithaca, the downtown tech hub “Ithaca …
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