Profile profile for bedij
Joyce Bedi
History of invention, history of photography, new media
Lead editor of Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation book series published with MIT Press; historical research and writing.
Exhibitions at the National Museum of American History:
- Picturing Women Inventors (2021-ongoing)
- Inventive Minds: Immigrant Inventors (2020-2023)
- Inventive Minds: Women Inventors (2018-2019)
- Inventive Minds: Sporting Inventions (2017-2018)
- Inventive Minds: Inventing Green (2016-2017)
- Solar on the Line (2016-2018)
- Places of Invention (2015-2023)
- Inventive Minds: Everyone Is Inventive (2015-2016)
- Hot Spots of Invention showcase exhibit (2009-2012)
- Toying with Invention (2008–2012)
- Sporting Invention showcase exhibit (2008–2009, 1999-2001)
- The Inventive Side of Nobel showcase exhibit (2001-2002)
- Nobel Voices: Celebrating 100 Years of the Nobel Prize (2001)
- Who Invented the Environment? showcase exhibit (1999)
- The Colors of Invention showcase exhibit (1997-1998)
- Everyday Inventions showcase exhibit (1995-1997)
Exhibitions at other museums:
- Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton, MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2008)
- Never Stop Learning: The Life and Legacy of Harold Edgerton, Strobe Alley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997-ongoing)
- Hugging Red Hannah: Corporal Punishment in New Castle, New Castle (Del.) Historical Society, (1991-1992)
- From Inventor to Scientist: Elihu Thomson, 1885-1910, Swampscott (Mass.) Administration Building (1986-1987)
- Edison after the Electric Light: The Challenge of Success traveling exhibition, National Museum of American History, (1986-1989)
Books in the Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
- American Independent Inventors in an Age of Corporate R&D (2021), by Eric S. Hintz
- Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention (2020) by Joris Mercelis
- Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (2019), by Kathyrn D. Sullivan
- Does America Need More Innovators? (2019), edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine
- The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology (2016), by Sarah Kate Gillespie
- The Color Revolution (2012), by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
- Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (2009), by Kurt Beyer
- Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century (2008), by Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella
- Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (2008), by Paul Ceruzzi
- Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison (2008), by Michael Brian Schiffer
- Inventing for the Environment (2003), edited by Arthur P. Molella and Joyce Bedi
Forthcoming:
- American Bridge, by Gregory Dreicer
- Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski
- Reinventing the Wristwatch: From a Mechanical to an Electronic World, by Carlene Stephens
- Sensual Science: Expertise, Craft and Chemical Invention in Global Perfumery, by Galina Shyndriayeva
- The Synthetics Revolution, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Blogs on the Lemelson Center website:
- “Who Invented the Environment?” 2022
- “Lupe Hernandez and the Invention of Hand Sanitizer,” 2020
- "A Heartfelt Story," 2016
- "Hollywood Geek Fest—The Oscars Side Party," with Joseph N. Tatarewicz, 2016
- “A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes,” 2015
- “Invention Hot Spot: Campus and City Combine Their Energies for a Greener Planet in Fort Collins, Colorado,” 2015
- “A Little Story About the Big Screen,” 2015
- “Invention Hot Spot: Technicolor Sets the Scene,” 2015
- “And We Were There,” 2015
- “Remembering Ralph Baer,” 2014
- “Don’t Make Me Get the Flying Monkeys,” 2013
- "Inventing for the Environment," 2013
- “What Do You Want to Make Today?” 2012
- “Sivowitch Law of Firsts,” 2012
- “The Color of Invention,” 2012
- “From the Collections: Prepared Minds,” 2012
- “A Brief History of Small,” 2011
- “Squishy Gunk in Tubes,” O Say Can You See, 2011
- “Tools Never Die … Do They?” O Say Can You See, 2011
- "The Power of Place," 2010
- "Seeing in the Dark: Aerial Reconnaissance in World War II," 2010
- “Imagining Places of Invention,” 2010
- "MIT in World War II: A Hot Spot of Invention," 2010
- "Exploring the History of Women Inventors," 2005
- "Thomas Edison's Inventive Life," 2004
Blog Posts
Publications
An overview of the invention of Technicolor.
Companion book to the Places of Invention exhibition.
An anthology of essays on the role of invention in mitigating environmental issues.