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Ralph Baer playing his Telesketch game, 1977
Encouraging Innovative Thinking

Ralph H. Baer Endowment for Invention Education

Contributions to the Ralph H. Baer Endowment will support invention education through the Lemelson Center.

3D printed wearable components
Blog

Game Controllers for All

Developing an adaptive game controller activity

Screenshot of Spacewar! video game
Lemelson Center Research

Video Game Pioneers Initiative

A project to document and preserve the legacy of video game pioneers.

Abra, a Psychic-type Pokémon, sitting near the entrance to Spark!Lab
Blog

Pokémon Go: An Examination of Innovation

You’ve heard of the mobile app sensation. Are its developers real-life versions of Spark!Lab inventors?

Illustration of a family playing Magnavox Odyssey games
Blog

50 Years at 16,000 Percent Annual Growth

Ralph Baer transformed interactive entertainment and gave rise to an industry that earned nearly $102 billion in revenue worldwide in 2015.

Invention sketch of accessible snowboard
Invention Stories

Inventive Minds: Everyone Is Inventive

Throughout American history, inventors and innovators have used their imaginations to create, improve, and promote inventions and innovations that shape our everyday lives. Explore their stories in the Inventive Minds gallery.

Ralph Baer plays his Telesketch game, 1977.
Invention Stories

Ralph Baer: The Inventor I Knew

Director Art Molella reflects on his friendship with "the father of video games," the late Ralph Baer.

Ralph Baer plays his Telesketch game, 1977.
Invention Stories

Remembering Ralph Baer

The Lemelson Center notes with great sadness the passing of our friend Ralph Baer on 6 December 2014. Now considered the “father of video games,” Ralph shared the following cautionary tale in 2008, attesting to the potential fragility of the independent inventor's legacy.

Encouraging Innovative Thinking

A Career in Video Games

Lemelson Center staff member Laurel Fritzsch Belman looked into the recent history of getting degrees in video game design.

Musical group 8 Bit Weapon
Beyond Words

Podcast: Extra: GameFest!

Watch musical group 8 Bit Weapon demonstrate their skills in using video game chips and systems to make live music.

Ralph Baer
Beyond Words

Video: Inventor of the Home Video Game, Ralph Baer in Spark!Lab

Inventor of the home video game, Ralph Baer and his co-worker Bill Harrison reenact their original ping pong game on a replica of his "brown box" video game system. This event took place in Spark!Lab to celebrate National Inventors Month.

Ralph Baer is sitting at his desk, with his back to the camera, working on something. The desk is covered with equipment and parts and books cover the wall in front of him.
Beyond Words

Podcast: Ralph Baer Brings Video Games to Your Home

In the late-1960s, Baer designed some of the first home video games, pioneering systems that enabled video games to be played on your television.

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Archives

Ralph H. Baer Papers

Inventor Name Baer, Ralph Repository The StrongOne Manhattan SquareRochester, NY 14607585-263-2700http://www.thestrong.org/

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Archives

Ralph H. Baer Papers, 1943-2006

Inventor Name Baer, Ralph Repository Archives CenterNational Museum of American HistorySmithsonian InstitutionWashington, D.C.202-633-3270http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives

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