The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center was founded in 1995 at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, through a generous gift from the Lemelson Foundation. The Center's mission is to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation, to encourage inventive creativity in young people, and to foster an appreciation for the central role invention and innovation play in the history of the United States. If you want to know more about the activities of the Lemelson Center, please visit our Web site.
The Lemelson Center invites you to tour "Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History" to learn more about invention and innovation. To do so, try the activities below:
What Can We Learn From Machines?
Dyeing in an International Context
Du Pont and the Development of Nylon
Comments and questions to the Lemelson Center:lemcen@si.edu
Last Revision: 2/16/05