He had several colleagues to help. A collage of stories that demonstrate the diligence and resourcefulness of using materials that are available to create solutions to real problems. On the Anniversary of Edison's Discovery. A recollection by a professor that knew Edison made many comments about how he invented the incandescent lamp. Students use a tube, various filaments, an electrical source, and a luminescent gauge to determine the feasibility of various incandescent combinations.
Invention uses that information, concept, and skill of all that is currently known.
Creation of new technologies is interactive with the needs of society. Stephanie Kwolek Story. A woman battles industrial prejudice to become the inventor of Kevlar. Students experiment with various composite polymers and create new products that they test the physical parameters and market. Utility of a discovery is often not clearly understood until the material or invention is tested and analyzed.