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Narrated by Ossie Davis, this tribute to minority inventors
touches upon many inventions that have contributed to American science, technology, and medicine. Motivates junior and senior high school students (minority) to take scientific and technical subjects as
preparation for careers in science and technology. (Professional, high-quality video) (27:11)
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Famous math inventors were nearly all from Ancient Greece, the birthplace of geometry and trigonometry. The instructor uses a white board to discuss not the inventors themselves, but the specific math and it origins. (02:04)
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A video presentation about famous black men and women inventors of the 20th and the 21st century. This video is just a short list of the MANY contributions of blacks throughout history. NOTE: Video narrative was obtained from Black-Inventors.com and MIT.edu. Please visit these very helpful sites for more information on these and other Black Inventors not listed in this video. The book "Black Inventors" by Keith Holmes is another great source of information. (18:34)
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This is a slideshow of of pictures, photos, and words about Black inventors. The pictures and information are set to music. (03:32)
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This 27-minute video is a tribute to minority inventors touches upon many inventions that have contributed to American science, technology, and medicine. This video has several segments that explain the inventions and the inventor. Excellent video to motivate students that inventions that improved society come from all peoples. This is narrated by Ossie Davis. (27:11)
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This short film shows how inventors have changed our world. (02:00)
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This four-minute video reviews student created inventions and includes an interview with some of these inventors years later. Should be motivating for students.
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Story by Jim Haskins (11:13)
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These innovators were never properly recognized for transforming the world we live in. (02:08)
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Edison was a prolific inventor who registered 1,093 patents in his name in the United States, in addition to others in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. But more important than his many patents was the wide impact some of his inventions had: electric lighting and the public electricity supply, sound recording, and cinematography became powerful new industries around the world. . His inventions contributed in particular to telecommunications, such as a voting machine, a battery for an electric car, electric power, music recording, and movies. His advanced work in these fields was but a continuation of his early work as a radio operator. Edison developed a system for generating and distributing electrical power to homes, businesses, and factories, a crucial advance for the modern industrialized world. (02:57)
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Most people have heard about famous inventions like the light bulb, the cotton gin and the penicillin. Take a moment and look around. Do you see any inventions? Inventions are everywhere you look! Your computer, your clothes, your notebook, your furniture - inventions are all around you. An object may have been invented a long time ago, or it may be an improvement based on other inventions, but every man made object you see was originally an invention of some kind. (10:48)
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Join School House Rock as they sing about some of the most important inventions in history. This short, catchy song will help you memorize the following inventions and their inventors: cotton gin (Eli Whitney), lightbulb (Thomas Edison), telegraph (Samual Morse), sewing machine (Elias Howe), telephone (Alexander Graham Bell), airplane (the Wright brothers), steamboat (Robert Fulton), wireless radio (Marconi), car (Henry Ford), and factories (Samuel Slater). (03:01)
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At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life.
William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit his needs. The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family home. After reading about Kamkwamba on Mike McKay's blog Hactivate (which picked up the story from a local Malawi newspaper), TEDGlobal
Conference Director Emeka Okafor spent several weeks tracking him down at his home in Masitala Village, Wimbe, and invited him to attend TEDGlobal on a fellowship. Onstage, Kamkwamba talked about his invention and shared his dreams: to build a larger windmill to help with irrigation for his entire village, and to go back to school. Following Kamkwamba's moving talk, there was an outpouring of support for him and his promising work. Members of the TED community got together to help him improve his power system (by incorporating solar energy), and further his education through school and mentorships. Subsequent projects have included clean water, malaria prevention, solar power and lighting for the six homes in his family compound; a deep-water well with a solar-powered pump for clean water; and a drip irrigation system. Kamkwamba himself returned to school, and is now attending the African Leadership Academy, a new pan-African prep school outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
Kamkwamba's story is documented in his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. A short documentary about Kamkwamba, called Moving Windmills, won several awards last year; Kamkwamba and friends are now working on a full-length film. You can read the ongoing details on his blog (which he keeps with help from his mentor), and support his work and other young inventors at MovingWindmills.org.
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Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results. The solutions to many of our problems have answers already used by living creatures and that can be sustained over time.
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This video is one of MEET ME AT THE CORNER's virtual field trips. A group of young girl inventors from San Diego enter FIRST Robotic competition. The girls answer various questions in this video interview. Run time 04:15.
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America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites. A technology and publishing enthusiast, Dale Dougherty founded MAKE magazine and created the world's largest DIY festival, Maker Faire. (11:47)
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This is a two-minute amateur video that shows drawings of several inventions from US inventors before the Civil War. The video features slides, drawings, and narration.
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The Inventing Flight video series explores the history and development of flight with special focus on the Wright Brothers from Dayton, Ohio, the inventors of the first practical airplane. In this video episode your host takes you to the year 1900. Because of the advent of invention, discovery, and expansion, people's lives were changing quickly and dramatically. It was during this time that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first powered airplane. In this video you learn about the Wrights' lives, their times, and their fascination with the possibility of human flight. From the development of their first controllable glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to their dramatic 39 minute flight under complete control on October 5, 1905 in Dayton, Ohio, the history of the invention of the first practical airplane is revealed. (9:39)
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This is a 30-minute biography of the life of Thomas Alva Edison, (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. (30:26)
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(08:07) Growth on the cutting edge is all about the creation of new ideas.
So, we want institutions that incentivize such creation. How do we do this? The answer is somewhat tricky.
The first goal for good ideas is for them to spread as freely as possible. The further the reach, the greater the gains. The problem is, if just anyone can use ideas, then why would we ever pay for them? And without the right incentives, why would innovators create new ideas at all?
Imagine yourself as the creator of a new drug. Typically, it costs about a billion dollars to do this, not counting the time and effort needed, to get the drug FDA-approved.
Now, if there were no protections in place, then theoretically, once the formula’s known, everyone could just copy the make-up of your new drug. See, the thing about pharmaceuticals is, once the formula’s known, production is relatively cheap. Given that, let’s assume imitations start flooding the market.
Predictably, the price of your new drug will plummet.Once prices hit rock-bottom, you’ll have no way to recoup the $1 billion you spent on R&D.Given that kind of result, we reckon you probably won’t want to develop more good ideas.The US founding fathers anticipated this problem. Knowing that innovators needed incentives to have good ideas, the founders wrote a protection mechanism into the Constitution.
They gave Congress the ability to grant exclusive rights to inventors—rights to use and sell their inventions, for a limited period of time. This exclusive right, is what we call a patent. Patents grant inventors a temporary monopoly over the use and sale of their intellectual property.
Now, as nice as this is, patents are a thorny subject.
For one, how long should patents last? Also, how much innovation is considered enough to merit a patent grant? Not to mention, are patents the only way to reward good ideas?
The answer is no.
There are two more incentive options here: prizes, and subsidies.
Let’s start with subsidies. University and research subsidies are particularly effective in the basic sciences. Since innovations in this space are rather abstract, subsidies incentivize research without requiring the applications of the research to be explicitly named. The problem is, when we’re incentivizing just research, then researchers might pick directions that are interesting, but not particularly useful.
This is why the third incentive option—prizes—exists.
Prizes reward the output of solving a certain problem. Another plus, is that prizes leave solutions unspecified. They provide a problem to work on, but give quite a lot of leeway as to how the problem is solved.
Now, knowing the complexity inherent in patents, you might think that prizes and subsidies are good enough alternatives. But none of these incentives for ideas, are inherently better than any of the others. Patents, prizes, and subsidies all involve their own tradeoffs and questions.
For example, who decides what gets subsidized? Who decides which goals merit a prize?
It’s hard to determine what mix of institutions, will best incentivize the production of good ideas. Patents, prizes, and subsidies all navigate these conflicting goals, in their own way.
And yes, all this talk of incentives and conflicting goals and tradeoffs might be like walking a tightrope. But, it’s a tightrope we can’t opt out of. Certainly not if we want the economy to keep growing.
In our next release, you’ll watch a TED talk from a certain economist that elaborates further on ideas. And then, we’ll wrap up this course segment with the Idea Equation. Stay tuned!
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Innovation
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In this video, which is also featured in Marginal Revolution University’s Everyday Economics course, we discuss the key factors behind the rise in innovation and entrepreneurship over the past couple of centuries.
The economic historian Deirdre McCloskey coined the term “innovationism." While there have always been inventors and innovators, that number exploded after the eighteenth century, contributing to what has been described as the “Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity.
"Why has innovation grown so rapidly? Economist Douglass North argued it had to do with institutions such as property rights, non-corrupt courts, and rule of law, which lay the foundation for innovation to take place. Others attribute the rise to factors such as education or access to reliable energy. McCloskey argues that what really kicked innovation into high gear is a change in attitude — ordinary people who once celebrated conquerors and kings began to celebrate merchants and inventors.
In the end, a better understanding of what drives innovation could help poor countries that still live on the handle of the “Hockey Stick" reach a much greater level of prosperity. (03:22)
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The F.B.I. is an important government agency that is in charge of keeping national security safe. Watch our clarifier and learn what they do. The inventors of Brain Quest decks created Clarify* with one goal in mind: to help parents and kids (ages 10-14, grades 5-8) understand complicated news stories through videos. (01:32)
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This one minute video provides an overview of what computer majors due in terms of conducting research into fundamental computer and information science as theorists, designers, or inventors. The video also tells the pros and cons of the career.
Found by freealan in Computer Science
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This short video gives 10 quick facts about microwave ovens. Some of the facts include who invented microwave ovens, frequency, no plastics, safety, and radar range. Content is appropriate for middle school students and they will enjoy this fast paced video. This would be a good resource for studying about inventors and/or inventions. (00:43)
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Why one of the greatest inventors of all time died penniless.Amendment: @7:03 It's debated who "discovered" America. (12:58)
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