littleBits, the company that introduced sets of electronic building blocks for use in classrooms to help students learn how technology works, has launched three new STEAM kits for ages 8-plus to ...

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Some kids enjoy going to school during the summer. Camp Invention is a nationwide science-oriented summer camp created by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to engage students entering kindergarten ...

Sometimes, you stumble upon an invention that makes you wonder, "How did they even think of this back then?" Some ideas were way ahead of their time, only to be forgotten or overshadowed by newer ...

Although (or perhaps because) the Western world is fairly well along in its transition from an industrial, manufacturing-oriented society to a postindustrial, information-based one, histories of the ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

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