Nathan "Nate" Barker Ball (born May 13, 1983 in Newport, Oregon) works as a host on the PBS Kids show Design Squad. Ball has appeared in an episode of Myth Busters, a History Channel special on Batman technology, in an insurance advertisement, and in a FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman season 4 episode.
He holds two degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.S. (2005) and an M.S. (2007).
He won the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2007.
He co-founded a business to develop the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender, a tool he helped create that enables "reverse rappelling" up vertical surfaces at high speed.
He is listed as the co-inventor on 6 patent applications.
He is a two-time NCAA All-American pole-vaulter and MIT’s outdoor record holder in the sport, with a record jump of 16' 8 ¾".
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We used to feel the awe of the distant stars upon us. All that led to was the eighty-eight naval guns, ersatz, and the night air-raids over cities. A magnificent spectacle.
After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.”
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