IN recent years progressive science teachers have been pondering the problem of “humanising” scientific instruction, of introducing the breath of life into the “valley of dry bones” of ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... inventions and innovations responsible for the trappings of modern life. Ranking innovations is more art than science.

The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was established to study that process, and to document the stories of innovators and their exciting discoveries.