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Feb 3, 2016 · What drives invention? Sometimes, it’s back pain. Here’s how to prime your own creativity to make something new.
The key to supporting invention, however, is an understanding of story plots. Pick a simple story design and stick to it. With a simple plot to follow, the act of story-making is made easier, as the writer knows exactly where the story is going.
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- Suspension Bridges
- Toilets
- The Walkman
- The Pill
- Super Soaker
- The Blood Bank
- Space Telescopes
- The Pizza Box and Pizza Table
- X-Rays
- Wildlife Cams
Suspension bridges are nothing new; there’s one in China that until recently used bamboo that’s at least 1000 years old, and may be over 2000. But the modern suspension bridges that came along in the 1800s were something else altogether: They were cheaper to build, easier to repair, and provided plenty of leeway in case of flooding. Eventually, the...
Dry and flush toilets have been around for thousands of years, and while many of us take these pieces of porcelain hardware for granted these days, there’s no doubt that life would look much different—and much worse—without them. “Toilets are the key to a thriving, healthy society,” Kimberly Worsham, sanitation expert and founder of FLUSH(Facilitat...
Though many of today’s kids didn’t know what a Walkman was until they saw Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill flaunt one in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, they pay unofficial homage to the device every time they play a song on their smartphone. Transistor radios had been around since the 1950s, but it was Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka who really revolutioniz...
By the end of the 19th century, bicycles were offering women a relatively cheap, easy form of independence. Their movements,and the clothing they wore, became less restricted. Decades later, a new item would hit the market and further revolutionize women’s rights: the Pill. Hormonal birth control pills (often shortened to just the Pill) weren’t the...
For decades, squirt guns were flimsy pieces of plastic that could barely muster enough power to water a houseplant. Then the first Super Soaker—then called the Power Drencher—hit the market in 1990, bringing along with it a Schwarzenegger-esque machismo and a sophisticated air-pressure system that promised to drench unsuspecting targets from far fu...
Less than a century ago, patients requiring a blood transfusion were in a race against time. There was no organized network for people to donate blood, and because blood was difficult to preserve, there was no way to store it for future use. Patients had to find their own blood donorsbefore it was too late. In 1937, after devising a technique for p...
When Lyman Spitzer proposed the invention of a space telescope in the 1940s, humans could look at our universe only through land-based instruments. Earth’s atmosphere acted like a veil between the land-based telescopes and space, blurring images and hindering detection of far-off celestial phenomena. Spitzer’s research paved the way for the Hubble ...
The pizza industry has undergone numerous innovations in recent decades, but one element that has remained largely the same is the box your pie comes in. Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan changed the game in the early 1960s when he worked with Triad Containers in Detroit to develop the modern pizza box. Prior to this, pizzas were delivered in bag...
One fall evening in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physics professor, was experimenting with the conduction of electricity through low-pressure gases when he accidentally discovereda mysterious ray capable of making a chemical-coated screen fluoresce a few yards away. He went on to put objects between the tube and the screen to see the shadows the...
The first “wildlife cams” were invented by Pennsylvania Congressman and photography enthusiast George Shiras around the end of the 19th century. He got the idea from a hunting technique used by the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, in which a fire is built in a pan and placed in the front part of a canoe while the hunter sits in the bow. “The glow ...
Invention may refer to the act of creating something novel, something that has never existed before. Or, invention may refer to solving problems in your day-to-day life. And, in school and work settings, invention may refer to a stage in the writing process.
Mar 10, 2021 · Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work. These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of...
Jul 19, 2023 · 20 inventions that changed the world. From the wheel 5,500 years ago to the birth control pill, these 20 inventions had huge ramifications and have helped humans shape the world around us. When...
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May 16, 2023 · What is invention? How and why do people invent things? Scientific breakthroughs; Trial and error; Inventions that evolve; Accidental inventions; Advantageous inventions; The world of corporate invention; What are patents and why do we need them? Find out more
