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Inventions and Inventing: Finding Solutions to Practical Problems

Kevin Byron

Inventions have provided solutions to practical problems from the earliest times, with the development of basic tools, to the present day, with its vast array of highly complex technological innovations that impact on almost all areas of our lives. The advent of inventive solutions to problems, however, can very considerably, even when the basic knowledge and capabilities are in place. Conversely, sometimes the solution can arrive ahead of the problem. This presentation will look at inventions and the art and science of inventing, and describe some key inventions and their development.

Dr. Kevin Byron graduated from the University of Salford in 1970 and received his doctorate in Applied Physics at the University of Hull in 1974. He joined Nortel's Harlow Laboratories (formerly Standard Telecommunications Laboratories) in 1974 where he has been engaged in research in lasers and optical communication technology. He has published some sixty papers and forty patents. He is an honorary visiting lecturer to the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is currently re-inventing himself in a new career in technology communications at Nortel.

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