He's in the Inventors Hall of Fame with Walt Disney!

Lanny Smoot is someone you need to know about.

He is a national treasure. Lanny has been creating and inventing things that improve our lives – from technology to entertainment – since the 1970s...and he's not done yet!

Lanny Smoot's life began in Brooklyn, New York, and he's now flourishing in Southern California leading Disney into the future – literally.

Learn about this fascinating man in this story that hits the main highlights of his life so that you get to know the man, shows you the amazing work he's done with technologies that we still use today, his incredible inventions for Disney – especially the ones for Star Wars – including his latest invention that will change the world we live in.

We finish up with some amazing news that Lanny Smoot was given recently that solidified his place among the greats – an acknowledgment that he now shares with Walt Disney himself.

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Stories of more amazing people like Mel Blanc, who almost didn't live to voice the Looney Tunes, Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood Starlet with a side hustle that we still use every single day, and Louis Prima, the singer with the voice that is very familiar...for a reason.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 An Engineering Kind of Mind
01:22 Lanny's Father gives him the spark
03:02 Lanny makes his first homemade creation
03:40 Lanny's education path
05:34 Lanny's Early Contributions to Technology
07:12 Helping Disney Imagineer the Future
09:30 Lanny brings the BB-8 Star Wars Droid to life
10:13 Lanny's incredible HoloTile Floor
11:06 The Highest Honors for Lanny
14:53 Coming Up: Stories about more amazing humans

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