Exhibitions

Lemelson Center: Inventing Ourselves

February 13, 2006 – May 7, 2006

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, West Wing, Lemelson Center Cases

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How technology is used to reinvent our bodies is the subject of these 2 exhibit cases. On view are examples of electronic and mechanical medical inventions that, through history, have enhanced physical abilities (e.g., pacemaker, cochlear implants, hip replacements).