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Article: Smithsonian's Lemelson Center Celebrates National Inventors' Month by Building World's Largest LEGO Light Bulb and Hosting Inventor Ralph Baer
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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To: FAMILY EDITORS
Contact: Kate Wiley, Smithsonian, +1-202-633-3129; or Karen
Lynch, LEGO, +1-650-490-0608; Media Web site: http://
newsdesk.si.edu
WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and LEGO Systems,
Inc. are celebrating National Inventors' Month by hosting a two-day
collaborative build of an 8-foot-tall light bulb made entirely of
LEGO bricks Aug. 1 and 2 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
American History.
The universal symbol of a big idea, the light bulb will be
assembled by museum visitors together with the help of LEGO master
builders. The activity aims to reinforce the connections between
play and ...