Inventions

Academy of Music

In 1870, the Academy of Music hosted the first public audience to watch a motion picture

This early movie projector started a dispute between the Franklin Institute and Thomas Edison

Phantoscope

Penn researchers invent super glue-strength adhesive with stickiness that can be reversed

Penn adhesive super glue

How a Temple student's near-death experience inspired a bicycle helmet that looks like a baseball cap

Rachel Hall Temple graduation

Philly woman leaves career as a civil-rights attorney to make jigsaw puzzles

Carroll - Puzzle So Hard

How did bulletproof backpacks become a sad necessity in gun-crazy America?

SafeShield

How a hands-free dog-walking device could save a family from losing their home

GearTAC

WATCH: Philly-area man's 'Shovelution' could save your achy back

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Philly design student creates working replica of bionic video-game arm

Robotic Arm

Temple researchers invent device to reduce calories in chocolate

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Morris Arboretum to host 2016 Steampunk Expo

NW Philly teen attends White House Science Fair

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Free Library of Philadelphia

New Jersey and Delaware make list of top 10 most innovative states

Liberty Science Center

Philly gay bar to house first sex toy vending machine

Sex Toy Vending Machine

Bursting Americans' infatuation with Bubble Wrap

Bubble Wrap

Pizza Hut box turns into a DIY-movie projector

Pizza Hut Movie Projector box

The music of nature

Nature and Music

Downingtown High West students develop flood tracking instrument

Downingtown Borough Hall

Philly native creates device that tells you where Obama is right now

Obama detector

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