Inventive Minds: Van Phillips
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- Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History
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- 3,201
- Video Title
- Inventive Minds: Van Phillips
- Description
- Van Phillips is a prosthetics inventor who has made it possible for millions of amputees to walk again. Through first-person videos, artifacts, and archival materials, visitors to Inventive Minds gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History learn about the traits that successful inventors share—insatiable curiosity, keen problem-solving skills, tenacity, and flexibility in the face of failure—and explore the creative spirit of American invention.
- Video Duration
- 2 min 33 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- invention innovation
- Uploaded
- 2015-09-09T20:56:07.000Z
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- YouTube Videos
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- Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History
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- LemelsonCenter
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- Education
- Topic
- American History
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