Posts Tagged ‘inventors’
Lonnie Johnson, age 70, was always a maker. As a child, his experiments with rocket fuel nearly burned down his house. While in high school, Johnson was the only black student to enter the Alabama science fair; his entry, a pneumatic robot named Linex, took first prize. Johnson went on to earn engineering degrees from ...
“I design Unnecessary Inventions for fun,” says IMGURian @rightcoastguy, who was challenged by fellow users to make this truly silly and wacky invention.
“Meet the SockNoMore.”
I like it.
I would... sheepishly buy it.
I design Unnecessary Inventions for fun, and Imgurian challenged me to make this - meet the SockNoMore.
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In 1920, the great Nikola Tesla patented this ingenious valve that allows fluid or gas to flow in one direction but not the other. And it does it based entirely on its geometry without any moving parts. Here is the US patent, number 1,329,559.
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We all know the game Operation in which the player must conduct surgery on a curious character named Cavity Sam. As the commercial goes, "It takes a very steady hand." But as sci-tech historian Allison Marsh writes in IEEE Spectrum, Operation evolved from a very different electrified game called Death Valley that was invented ...
Today is National Slinky Day. As Rachael Lallensack writes in Smithsonian, a spring, a spring, this marvelous thing was invented by accident:
In 1943, mechanical engineer Richard James was designing a device that the Navy could use to secure equipment and shipments on ships while they rocked at sea. As the story goes, he dropped ...
The automobile is a modern convenience that the majority of people all over the world have come to rely on to get more or less wherever they want to go, so much so that life without them is almost incomprehensible in modern times. Motor vehicles came to prominence steadily over the course of the 20th ...
The automobile is a modern convenience that the majority of people all over the world have come to rely on to get more or less wherever they want to go, so much so that life without them is almost incomprehensible in modern times. Motor vehicles came to prominence steadily over the course of the 20th ...
Thomas Edison is known to be one of the most prolific inventors in history. He invented hundreds of appliances and made others better. His existence is to be admired by all of humanity. ...
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Some of the world's greatest innovators are people you've never heard of. Everyone knows about Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone), Edward Jenner (vaccination) and the like. But there are a whole host of less obvious inventions that probably never even entered your invention radar - if you have such a thing. ...