Brumm virtual presentation set
MARQUETTE — The Peter White Public Library invites patrons to a virtual presentation via Zoom entitled “Invent Your Story” with Margaret Brumm from 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday.
For this presentation, Brumm will talk about inventors with roots in the Upper Peninsula. For example, Ishpeming native, Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, aircraft engineer and aeronautical inventor, contributed to the design of numerous Lockheed aircraft. And Glenn T. Seaborg, discovered several transuranium elements, one of which was named after him, seaborgium. Also surgeon and founder of Pioneer Surgical Technology, Matthew Songer, who invented the Songer Cable, which is instrumental in spinal surgeries.
Brumm is a patent attorney and member of the State Bar of Michigan. She earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University and her juris doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.
Currently she works in private practice of patent, trademark and copyright law with clients from multinational corporations in the U.S. and law firms in London, England.
The Zoom ID is 869 1171 9141; password, invent.
Brumm’s program is part of the Library’s Imagine Your Story Summer Reading Program for adults. For more information, visit www.pwpl.info, call 226-4318 or email Carolyn at cmcmanis@uproc.lib.mi.us.


