Smithsonian — Lemelson Center, Invention Stories

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Culture & Arts Film & TV

Apple's '1984' Super Bowl ad debuts the Macintosh

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Technology Inventions

The implantable pacemaker was born when an engineer grabbed the wrong resistor

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Technology Inventions

The first computer mouse was a wooden box with two metal wheels

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Technology Inventions

The typewriter that gave us QWERTY was patented

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Technology Inventions

Post-it Notes came from a glue that was too weak to work

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Technology Inventions

Velcro was invented by copying the burrs that stuck to a dog's fur

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