Engineering Discoveries

NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education and technology helps to create knowledge and sustain prosperity. Read here about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support.

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		Graduate Student Invents'Printer' for Low-Cost Eyeglasses MIT doctoral student Saul Griffith is an old-fashioned inventor with high-tech style. His inventions include a 'printer' for low-cost eyeglass lenses and electronic goggles to diagnose a person's eyeglass prescription. Released  April 5, 2004
		Shoebox-sized Robots Deployed in Rescue Effort at Ground Zero Graduate students and the experimental robots they helped to develop were among the early responders who joined the search and rescue efforts shortly after the Sept. 11 collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Released  March 24, 2004
		Breakthrough Brings Laser Light to New Regions of the Spectrum Researchers have created a "waveguide" that coaxes extreme-ultraviolet light waves into forming a tightly focused laser-like beam that will allow researchers to "see" tiny features and carve miniature patterns. Released  December 9, 2003
		Re-Shaping Product Development: 3-D Printing Builds Models Directly from Computer Design Imagine designing a product on your computer, pressing the print key, and the printer spits out a prototype. It's an apt analogy for Three-Dimensional Printing, a technology some observers believe will reshape industrial design, medicine and more. Released  October 16, 2003
		Academy-Award Winning Cinema Pioneer Creates Theater Sound for the 21st Century Tom Holman, developer of the Lucasfilm THX Sound System© used in thousands of movie theaters, is an audio engineer at the forefront of movie theater acoustics and speaker technology. Released  September 29, 2003
		Researchers Find Trigger for Devastating Digestive Disease and Propose a Possible Treatment Researchers discover what triggers severe inflammation of the intestine in people with celiac sprue, a common genetic disease that, if untreated, can lead to malnutrition and worse, and they propose a potential treatment. Released  July 25, 2003
		Artificial Retinas May Restore Partial Sight for Thousands in the Next Decade Research by engineering and medical teams holds tremendous promise for people who have lost their sight due to retinitis pigmentosa and other degenerative eye diseases. Released  June 25, 2003