Jerome Lemelson (C), one of America's most prolific inventors, talks with Aaron Lyles (L) and Devin Kirkland, students from the Patricia Roberts Harris Education Center in Washington May 31. Lemelson and his wife Dorothy gave $10.4 million, the largest donation made by an individual l, to the Smithsonian May 31 to establish the Jerome and Dorothy Lemuelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the museum