MEMBERS & VISITORS Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention In the Socratic dialogue ‘Republic’, Plato famously wrote: “our need will be the real creator” which was molded over time into the English proverb ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. Prof. Oku Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer
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MEMBERS & VISITORS 7 QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ASKED ABOUT THE SERIES 7 QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ASKED ABOUT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES 1. What is the world that the characters inhabit? I use images of people that look a little bit different, like a girl that has a bald head. She shaved her […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS PREPARING A GENERATION OF AFRICAN INVENTORS PREPARING A GENERATION OF AFRICAN INVENTORS I am working hard to implement a real world Invention School for African youth. Given the world’s current state of affairs, the stage is now set for Africans to deeply explore solutions to African problems without being hampered by […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS WORST OF TIMES, BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES, BEST OF TIMES I’m blessed to be alive, healthy, and living each day on the African continent. We are all witnessing the fall of western civilization and along with it all of the horrendous things which it perpetrated to enhance its own […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS How Can We Help? How Can We Help? Invention School, located in Eastern Kenya, is dedicated to nurturing the tech leaders of tomorrow. How will it do that? Well, enjoy this video and you can begin to learn how Invention School will develop the future generations of Africans who will be […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Wake Up Young Africans and Transform The Continent Dr. Thomas Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor, who contributed to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. Read Dr. Mensah’s book “The Right Stuff […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Young People Like This Belong In Invention School A Kenyan boy with big brilliant brain builds a homemade excavator prototype from sticks and plastic pieces. He’s already developing a natural sense of four bar linkages, mechanical advantage, material properties, force leverage, force vectors, etc. Yes, he’d make a wonderful apprentice inventor […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Oku’s Washing Machine SOLVING PROBLEMS… Families across the African continent spend countless hours squatting or stooping over while hand washing the family’s clothes. The toll on the back and hands is severe. The task of hand washing the equivalent of a typical single load of an electric washing machine can take up […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS MAASAI BOY’S INVENTION MADE PEACE WITH LIONS In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away. Young inventor Richard Turere […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS MILLIONAIRE INVENTOR: Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker was suffering from poverty and hair loss when she decided to concoct a hair regrowth lotion to heal her damaged scalp. Fast forward a handful of years and millions of dollars later, Walker was leading one of the most successful, and philanthropic, cosmetic companies […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS YOUNG KENYAN INVENTS ROBOTS A young Kenyan is proving that a lack of funding should not affect your dreams. Samuel Zila is a self-taught robot maker. His creations help around the house, but he has far bigger dreams for them in the future. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Technological Inventions by Africans Inventors of Ancient Africa The human species evolved on the continent of Africa. This means that Africa has been inhabited longer than any place on Earth. So it’s not surprising to learn that some of the greatest inventors in human history were living on this continent. The history […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INCREDIBLE INNOVATIONS FROM TANZANIA, KENYA, NIGERIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA From a scientist in Tanzania who created a water filter to combat water-borne diseases to apps in Kenya that give school children access to unlimited information, Africa is home to incredible technological innovations. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black Inventors of the 20th and 21st Century A video presentation about famous black men and women inventors of the 20th and the 21st century. This video is just a short list of the MANY contributions of blacks throughout history. NOTE: Video narrative was obtained from Black-Inventors.com and MIT.edu. Please visit these […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS NIGERIAN INVENTOR HAS RESOURCEFULLY BUILT MORE STUFF Nigerian inventor who built jet car according to CNN report has built another flying car, Durojaiye Kehinde Obasanjo To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS A DAY WITHOUT BLACK INVENTIONS Imagine a day where you couldn’t use anything invented by a black person. This description and title is a presumed riff on the movie title “A Day Without A Mexican”. Both of these considerations will bring the viewer to squarely contemplate the true contributions of inventors of […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INVENTORS MUSEUM Curator Francis Jeffers shares a number of different black inventors and shows some of the popular items many of us use every day. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black Female Inventors Here are a rundown of some of the famous and no so famous female inventors of African ancestry. Their contributions are significant though not widely known so it’s time to learn more. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black People Invented Everything? The Computer, The Cell Phone & The Internet! To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS NIGERIA’S YOUNGEST FANTASTICALLY CREATIVE INVENTOR Some of the greatest inventors in the world like Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, The Wright Brothers etc. have helped change the world one way or the other, and we think we have found our own Nigerian scientific savior. BattaBox presenter Odunayo meets and discusses with Nigeria’s youngest […]
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