Guest Speaker with Historian Eric Hintz
Wed, Feb 08
|Zoom
Historian Eric Hintz from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History will give a talk on Black inventors—their struggles and triumphs—in celebration of Black History Month in February.
Time & Location
Feb 08, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Zoom
Guests
About the event
Eric S. Hintz, PhD is a historian with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at
the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Eric curates exhibits, including the
award-winning Places of Invention; produces the Center’s annual symposium series, New Perspectives
on Invention and Innovation; coordinates the Center’s fellowship and grant programs; and assists in the
collection of historically significant artifacts and documents. He is the author of American Independent
Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D (MIT Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Matthew Wisnioski and