Word: lemelson
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...started inventing when he was just a tot," said Anne-Marie C. Amparo, director of the Lemelson-MIT program, which gives the award...
Yesterday DiLorenzo received the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness--and $30,000 in prize money...
According to Amparo, the award is part of the Lemelson-MIT's efforts to encourage young people to explore their inventive talents...
SOLD. SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever recovered, to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; at an auction in New York City. The winning bid of $8.4 million was financed partly by McDonald's and Disney. DIED. JEROME LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...