Having a patent means only that you can stop others from making, using, selling or importing your invention – it doesn’t mean the invention works well or without risk.
“FDA approved” means a product’s benefits have been found to outweigh the risks for a specific purpose – not that it’s of high quality or low risk in general.
The most useful invention I've ever run across... Corsi-Rosenthal box.
I have used this so far for:
Wildfire smoke
COVID-19
Bacon smoke (on Saturdays, LOL)
General improvement of AQI
Pet related allergies (hay and dander)
Ragweed/pollen heavy days
Dust from Santa Ana winds
Dust from construction/remodeling
Paint fumes (only partially useful, doesn't absorb gases, but helps somewhat) -- plus it sucks all the dust from the air, so it doesn't stick to your paint
Wooden tablets containing a language of glyphs called Rongorongo may be evidence that the people of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, created their own writing system without the influence of European language
American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison was born #OTD in 1847.
In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. via @wikipedia
U.S. Patent #223898: Electric-Lamp, issued January 27, 1880 Thomas Edison (reprinted by the Norris Peters Co.) - Edited version of Image:Light bulb Edison.jpg. US patent application 223898, Thomas Alva Edison, "Electric lamp", published 1880-01-27 Light bulb patent application. Photolithography reproduction.
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."
Quoted by Theodore Dreiser in A Photographic Talk with Edison, Success magazine (February 1898)
~Thomas Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931)
While he started three years prior, Otto Lilienthal took the invented glider on his first successful flight in 1894. It wasn't much more than 7 Seconds, but his achievement changed the world of aviation forever. Even the Wright brothers been well aware of the "flying man" from Berlin, but the TNYT missed to mention the pioneers like Lilienthal and Gustav Whitehead, five years after the very first motor flight, in their front page report about the Wright apparatus 1906.
However, in 2024 we can celebrate the 130th anniversary of this historic event and share our #Liliental portrait with you.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
Check out this super-cool instrument called a “DataBass.” Scott Mulvahill, the musician playing it in this video, is the person who invented it. It’s an upright bass with sample triggers affixed to the body. And it sounds absolutely delightful.
Ice cube mask designed to cure hangovers, 1947. The mask was invented by Max Factor, a makeup company that was founded in 1909 by a Polish beautician named Maksymilian Faktorowicz who emigrated to the United States in 1904. The mask was targeted towards actors and actresses in Hollywood. In 1991, the company was purchased by Proctor and Gamble for $1.14 billion. #triggerwarning#beauty#hangover#history#blackandwhitephotography#oldphotos#invention
Franz Reichelt was an Austrian-born French tailor who was obsessed with the idea of a wearable parachute for pilots. He tested his #invention with dummies, throwing them out the window from the 5th floor of his apartment building. The French government gave him permission to conduct a test from the Eiffel tower. In 1912 he tested his suit by himself. Reichelt jumped. The parachute failed to deploy, and he plunged 187 ft (57 m) to his death. #history#blackandwhitephotography
Mazie’s Amazing Machines should interest young inspiring inventors and engineers ! It is a fun and really smart read ! I love how the author explains the functioning of each machine at the end of the book. It is the perfect read for young dreamers who want to imagine great things !
As a social historian of tech tired of hype & innovation/invention-speak & "fathers" & "godfathers" of AI, & as one who greatly values HCI, des, dev & debugging maintenance work & highlighting gender & women's history of software, I for one am still waiting for Mothers of Maintenance lost tapes.