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A few have lasting power and succeed despite -- or perhaps even because of -- the ridicule they receive from the public. In this article, we'll look at 10 inventions that either were dismissed or embraced as being silly that ended up becoming famous. Silly Putty. ThighMaster.
- A Selfie Toaster. Who doesn't love taking selfies? We've pretty much all gotten in on the trend at this point. But did you know you can actually eat your selfie?
- Metal-Detecting Sandals. You know when you're at the beach and you see someone cruising around with their metal detector, hoping to find something good?
- Vibrating Jeans. We all have a pair of favorite jeans, but if your favorite pair isn't doing it for you, imagine this: a pair of jeans that vibrates. Why, you might ask?
- Keyboard Pants. If you always need to have your keyboard handy, well, you could get an iPad or something. Or you could get these jeans with a built-in keyboard.
Oct 3, 2023 · Wild Inventions introduces six pairs of animals and the inventions they inspired. It gives readers a peek at the creative process involved in designing new inventions to help people stay safe, live more comfortably, and go places and do things that weren’t previously possible.
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They noticed how the shape of birds’ wings allowed air to flow around them in a way that lifted them into the air. They built many models of machines to mimic bird flight. In 1903 the Wright brothers made the first human flight us-ing a machine with wings. problem with its super-speedy bullet train.
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The U.S. librarian of Congress ranks history's most important innovations.
This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the world. The rest of the time, he tried thousands of other things with only one fault—that they would never work.
That’s the sort of spirit and tenacity that leads to progress, says Carla Hayden, the U.S. librarian of Congress. The library keeps archives of many of America’s copyrights and blueprints, so National Geographic asked Hayden to list what she considers 10 of the most meaningful advances in history—the inventions and innovations responsible for the trappings of modern life.
Ranking innovations is more art than science. Can you really compare a camera to an airplane? But while progress is incremental, it’s also exponential; it builds on itself. The printing press allowed literacy to spread and thinkers to share ideas and, thus, invent more things.
Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the world in a better way, planes that fly farther, faster. But there’s still room, every so often, for dramatic advances like, say, 3-D printing or the Internet. “There will be more great leaps,” says Hayden. “We have a momentum and acceleration I think we can all feel.”
1.Printing press
2.Light bulb
3.Airplane
4.Personal computer
5.Vaccines
6.Automobile
Portable Practice Drum Set. About: I built this practice drum set for my brother when he was in college. He could not fit his regular drumset into his college dorm room, so I created this practice set that he could stow away underneath his bed when not in use.
May 15, 2008 · News Animals. Wild innovation. African chimp offers unusual glimpse of technological invention in action. By Bruce Bower. May 15, 2008 at 9:55 am. Just because there’s no patent office in the...
