"Welcome to the Black Inventor Online Museum ™, a look at the great and often unrecognized leaders in the field of invention and innovation. For more than 300 years, black inventors have served as pioneers in the field of science and have made enormous impacts on society. As African Americans sought freedom and equality, many among them, scientists, educators and even slaves, developed the tools and processes that helped to shape the modern agricultural, industrial and technological landscape. While some are famous, many remain unknown, but their contributions have assured that their stories are not only about black history, but about world history"
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Boy Scouts of America and Lemelson-MIT Program Introduce Inventing Merit Badge
Chemical Biologist and Entrepreneur Carolyn Bertozzi Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Biotechnology Innovations
$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Awarded to Dr. BP Agrawal for Rainwater Harvesting System, Mobile Health Clinics and Cultural Implementations
Erez Lieberman-Aiden wins the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Transformative Work in Genomics and Linguistics
2010 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index Reveals Ways to Enhance Teens Interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the Classroom and Beyond
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