Ostrich Pillow: For all the Power nap's lovers.

Ostrich Pillow, a portable device said to “enable power naps".

New Inventions For Common Problems

Upstanding Toothbrush
When the toothbrush is set down, it will sway momentarily until it reaches a balanced position - just like a tumble doll.

Bladeless Fan
Dyson fans use Air Multiplier technology to draw in air and amplify it. With no blades or grille, they are safe and easy to clean.

Two Way Toothpaste
Two way toothpaste is ideal for those who get angry with their partner for squeezing the toothpaste from the front.

Infinite USB
Innovative USB plug designed to act as a USB hub when plugged in.

Sixpack Bottle Carrier
It can safely transport up to six beer, soft drink, or water bottles.



Greenbo Rail Planter
Simply place your Greenbo planter on your railing, deck or fence. State of the art unique design assures its secure fit and stability.



Innovative Sewing Needle
With a bit of pressure, the loop eye of Big Eye Needle expands to the size of a button hole - making threading a cinch!

Inventions & Inventors: Guglielmo Marconi

Italian physicist and inventor who is credited with the invention of radio or wireless telegraphy. Guglielmo Marconi was born in a wealthy family of Bologna. In 1895 he was able to transmit wireless telegraph signals to two kilometers, which is considered the birth of radio.
Son of an Italian father and Irish mother, he studied at Leghorn and later at the Universities of Bologna and Florence, where he became interested in experiments on the airwaves.

By 1894 he began to investigate the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves in his father's house in Bologna, gradually increasing the distance between transmitter and receiver from 30 cm up to hundreds of meters.
In 1895 he discovered that by placing a Hertz spark generator on top of a rod, the reception range could be increased to several kilometers. He built a small device, whose range was 2.5 km, consisting of a transmitter, a Hertz spark generator and a receiver based on the effect discovered by the French engineer Edouard Branly in 1890. After seeing not much response with the Italian authorities, Marconi decided to go to the UK. Soon after arriving in London he received the support of the chief engineer of the Post Office, and in July 1896 after a series of improvements, he manged to patented the invention, which caused a stir among scientists of the time.

Celebrity Invention 1

Inventor: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) had three patents on inventions of his own.

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received his first patent (#121,992) for the "Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments" on December 19, 1871. The strap was used to tighten shirts at the waist, and was supposed to take the place of suspenders.

Twain patented his self-pasting scrapbook in 1873 and contrary to a popular myth, it was a success. The folding advertising leaflet at bottom is American; the pink leaflet is English, and the catalogue at left dates from 1901 and lists the dozens of formats and bindings available.

Additional Trivia: Why Did Samuel Clemens Use the Pen Name of Mark Twain?
Mark twain is a term used in steam boat piloting. It means the water is 13 Mark Twain's dream job was to be a pilot of a steam boat so he used the term as his pen name.
He got famous after he used it so he kept on using the name Mark Twain.

The story of "Silly Putty"

Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson, a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs.

It can be stretched, rolled into a bouncing ball, or used to transfer colored ink from newsprint. The original discovery is made in 1943 by James Wright, who combined silicone oil and boric acid in the laboratories of General Electric. He was researching methods of making synthetic rubber, but at the time no significant application existed for the material. However, it was passed around as a curiosity. Hodgson saw a sample and realized its potential simply for entertainment and coined its name for marketing it as a toy. Its popularity made him a millionaire.

Trivia Post: First alkaline battery

In 1955, Eveready moved researcher Lew Urry from an office in Toronto to its Cleveland plant and told him to come up with a better battery. At the time, the state of the art was the carbon zinc battery. Urry began looking at past failed experiments with alkaline, in which electrons pass from an anode made of zinc to a cathode made of manganese di and carbon while immersed in an alkaline electrolyte.

Urry experimented with different combinations of materials. He struck pay dirt when he used zinc in a loosely packed powder form. He also discarded the button-shape of the earlier alkaline batteries, going instead with a cylinder shape of commercial batteries already on the market. By the late 1950's he'd honed what he thought was a pretty good alkaline battery, and was ready to try and persuade the company to put the battery on the market. Using a mockup battery from an empty flashlight shaft, Urry put his prototype into a toy car, and a carbon zinc battery into an identical toy. He grabbed Eveready vice president of technology R.L. Glover and headed for the cafeteria at the Cleveland plant.

By the early 1960's, the alkaline was changing the way we lived. If you wanted to listen to the radio, you could go for a walk with your transistor, rather than gathering with family around the living-room console. The alkaline battery continues to improve. Energizer officials say today's battery lasts 40 times longer than the 1959 prototype.

Text taken from http://corrosion-doctors.org/PrimBatt/urry.htm

Trivia Post: What was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori ?

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments, and is regarded as the inventor of what would become the present-day piano.

The Cristofori piano action, as depicted in the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica

DISCOVERING X-RAYS

X-rays are a type of radiation can penetrate materials that light can not. These rays allow us to "see" inside objects (for example, the human body) without opening them.
The story begins with X-ray experiments by the British scientist William Crookes , who investigated in the nineteenth century the effect of certain gases to energy shocks. These experiments took place in a vacuum tube, and electrodes to generate high voltage current. Él lo llamó tubo de Crookes . He called Crookes tube. Despite the discovery, Crookes did not continue investigating this effect. Nikola Tesla , in 1887, he began to study this effect created by Crookes tubes. One of the consequences of their research was to warn the scientific community to the danger of biological organisms which involves exposure to these radiations.

In 1885, 8 November, the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen at the University of Würzburg in Germany, discovered a new form of penetrating radiation. He found that by passing electricity through a vacuum he produced a new type of high energy radiation that he called X- (for unknown) rays.

To test his discovery, Roentgen made an X-ray image of his wife Bertha's hand, clearly showing the bones of her hand and a pretty hefty wedding ring.
Roentgen also discovered that a beam of Xrays could pass through the body to produce an image on a photographic plate. Roentgen found that while bones appeared as clear images on the plate, soft tissues, such as muscle and skin, were much less distinct.

LOOKING INSIDE THE BODY
Within weeks, Roentgen’s discovery was greeted as one of the most significant in the history of medicine. For the first time doctors could look inside the living body without having to cut it open. Today, X-rays are used routinely to detect broken bones and other disorders.

The first digital camera

This is a prototype digital camera Kodak produced way back in 1975. The “toaster-sized” system relied on a cassette tape for recording data. The digitized images took 23 seconds to record to tape which then had to be played back using a specialized system (shown in the second photo — note the name of the Motorola computer, “EXORciser”).