# How ancient technology inspired my award-winning inventions

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxYouth@Sydney
- Speaker: Macinley Butson
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/macinley_butson_how_ancient_technology_inspired_my_award_winning_inventions)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work.

## Lectures

1. [How ancient technology inspired my award-winning inventions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/macinley_butson_how_ancient_technology_inspired_my_award_winning_inventions/1724ee7aed9d), 10 min (TED's player)