Have you ever had an idea for an invention but didn't know if it was worth the time and money to pursue? The Spilled Coffee Chronicles documents the ideas, creation, production, marketing and commercializing of different inventions. Inventing the Pizza Cutting Board (Portion Padltm) examines one invention with each volume concentrating on one or more aspects of the process of inventing. Volume 1, The Inventors, takes a look at what it takes to market an idea.

Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched uranium, batteries, microwave ovens, lasers, and anodized metals. In addition, short primers cover the scientific principles underlying the engineering, including waves, nuclear structure, and electronic transitions. "In Depth" sections cover entropy, semiconductors, and the mathematics of capacitors. Eight Amazing Engineering Stories forms the basis of the fourth series of EngineerGuy videos found on-line.

When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and composition studies, the topic is almost always related to computers-despite their comparatively recent development and deployment in this millennia-old profession. Computers themselves are new; composition's rush to emergent technologies is not. New teachers face expectations that they will master everything from word processing to the multi-modal essay, from Aristotle's Rhetoric to the classroom whiteboard. While little can be done immediately to change such unrealistic and unreasonable expectations, teachers and scholars can benefit greatly from considering the place such expectations and technologies have in the larger and longer flow of rhetoric and composition studies-from the technology of road building in the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school from afar, to the technology of handwriting, now largely falling by the wayside. From this past emerge fresh perspectives on the future of writing technologies in the digital age. The story of technology in composition's history and pedagogy is one of stability and change, of short-term success and long-term failure. The essays in ON THE BLUNT EDGE: TECHNOLOGY IN COMPOSITION'S HISTORY AND PEDAGOGY tell the story of rhetoric and composition's long and intriguing relationship with writing technologies, revealing the ways that they have transformed the teaching and understanding of writing throughout history. Contributors include SHANE BORROWMAN, RICHARD LEO ENOS, DANIEL R. FREDRICK, RICHARD W. RAWNSLEY, SHAWN FULLMER, KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY, JOSEPH JONES, SHERRY RANKINS ROBERTSON, DUANE ROEN, MARCIA KMETZ, ROBERT LIVELY, CRYSTAL BROCH-COLOMBINI, THOMAS BLACK, JASON THOMPSON, and THERESA ENOS. SHANE BORROWMAN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montana Western, where he teaches composition and creative nonfiction. He is editor or co-editor of numerous collections, including Trauma and the Teaching of Writing (SUNY, 2005), The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration (Parlor Press, 2008), and Rhetoric in the Rest of the West (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). Additionally, he is editor/co-editor of multiple first-year composition textbooks and readers. His nonfiction has appeared in publications ranging from Brevity and Conclave: A Journal of Character to Whitefish Review and Rhetoric Review.

"Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment, so much that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts. "In attempting to give a connected and faithful account of my activities in this series of articles which will be presented with the assistance of the Editors of the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER and are chiefly addressed to our young men readers, I must dwell, however reluctantly, on the impressions of my youth and the circumstances and events which have been instrumental in determining my career." Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.

2011 Reprint of 1919 Edition. Published in six parts 1919 in the "Electrical Experimenter" Magazine. "My Inventions" is Telsa's autobiographical legacy. Long out of print, "My Inventions" reveals how a relentless photographic memory and runaway imagination almost fatally cursed his childhood in Yugoslavia. Tesla tells how he willfully harnessed his visions to invention, yet never outgrew his many bizarre childhood fears and compulsions. This is the famous story of Tesla's Faustian quest for the electric motor the experts said could never be built-a quest deep into his own unconscious mind that nearly cost him his life.

In "Brilliant," award-winning author Jane Brox offers a sweeping history of our transformative relationship with light--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future--and reveals that the surprising, complex story of our illumination is also the story of our modern selves.

Just five hundred years ago almost everyone lived at the mercy of the dark, yet today so much of life as we know it--our long evening hours, our flexible working days, our feelings of safety at night--depends upon cheap, abundant light. Brox not only examines the social and environmental implications of this remarkable transformation, she tells a compelling story imbued with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how the light of the future will shape our lives.

2011 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Special care has been taken to render the numerous illustrations in this edition as true to the original as possible. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla" is a book compiled and edited by Thomas Commerford Martin detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The book is a comprehensive compilation of Tesla's work and profusely illustrated. Written at the end of the 19th century, the book is a record of Tesla's pioneering activities, research, and works. Tesla is recognized as one of the foremost electrical investigators and inventors. At the time of publication, the book was the "bible" of every electrical engineer practicing the profession. The book includes Tesla's lectures, miscellaneous articles and discussions, and makes note of all his inventions up to the date of publication, particularly polyphase motors and the effects obtained with currents of high potential and high frequency. The book demonstrates that Tesla continued on the scientific frontier, barely pausing for an instant to work out details of utilization that may have at once been obvious to him. Wherever possible his own language was employed in the writing of the book.

Written by a successful inventor for inventors, The Essential Inventor's Guide provides step-by-step in-depth instruction on how to make your invention a success. Learn proven techniques to evaluate the market potential and patentability of your invention, perform a thorough patent search, write a quality patent, and license your invention in an easy learn-as-you-go style. The Essential Inventor's Guide teaches practical time-saving techniques to write a patent application using Ms Word. The Essential Inventor's Guide's companion Patent Application Workbook is available for FREE download on the internet. This comprehensive workbook, designed specifically to assist users of The Essential Inventor's Guide (but also invaluable as a stand-alone tool), includes a pre-formatted patent application template which is a must-have time-saver for anyone seeking to draft a patent application using Ms Word.

An eloquent call to re-energize science and technology. Brilliantly synthesizes current science, exposing America's economic meltdown as scientific failure. Explains nanotechnology, knowledge economy, maglev, AI, biotechnology, the Internet as crucial to prosperity. Reveals how America was made hostage to energy cartels, bailout-seekers, obsolete technology. Johns Hopkins technology expert Aris Melissaratos formerly led a multibillion-dollar high-tech firm. N.J. Slabbert is an honored scholar and former Reader's Digest senior editor. Showing how America lost its technological nerve, they argue that "returning to the technology standard" can build a vibrant civilization. Powerful ] delightfully easy reading ] recommended for those who need to understand the intricacies of technology and innovation in the 21st Century] a very strong contribution to our understanding of the global economy. Rita Colwell, PhD, DSc, US NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE LAUREATE, DIRECTOR, US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 1998-2004, former PRESIDENT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 1996. Could not have come at a better time." J.Gansler, former US UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE. "Essential reading." G.Decker, former SCIENCE ADVISOR TO US DEFENSE SEC. "There is only one way out of the country's economic, environmental and energy mess and it is described with rare clarity in this book." MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGY NEWS. "Excitingly signposts the way out of America's crisis of confidence. All business, government and educational leaders will benefit from this timely, nationally and internationally relevant work." Emily DeRocco, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN WORKFORCE, former US Assist.Sec. of Labor. "Superb" P.N. Yiannos, PhD, HELLENIC NEWS OF AMERICA.

In this entertaining and insightful exploration of the process of invention, an experienced inventor vividly illustrates how great inventions embody three crucial characteristics--simplicity, elegance, and robustness.
Whether you're an aspiring inventor or an experienced designer, the author's expertise, personal examples, and case studies offer detailed guidance on conceptualizing your ideas and turning them into reality. The author shows how ideas can come from a variety of sources such as the natural world, basic physical principles, life experience, or even chance observations. He examines how intuition and the harnessing of subconscious information are key ingredients for the inventive process.
He concludes with an in-depth look at the business of invention and the typical inventor's toolkit. He addresses the real-world challenges of turning a good idea into a practical, marketable application, including patents, marketing, and entrepreneurship. He is candid about the realities of hard work and the need to learn from the inevitable mistakes along the way.
Full of insights and practical guidance from a successful inventor and entrepreneur, this book will open new avenues of creativity for budding and accomplished inventors alike.

The fascinating inspirations behind common inventions and creations- from Barbie to Sweet and Low to Mt. Rushmore.
The slinky was born aboard a World War II ship.
The Barbie doll was inspired by a German sex toy.
Weight Watchers began with a Jewish housewife in Queens, New York.
"Eureka " explores the fascinating stories behind these famous creations and many others-from blue jeans to the Taj Mahal to Mickey Mouse-detailing the relationships between inspirations and their inventors. Readers will delight in the intriguing-and sometimes surprising-origins behind the ideas that have shaped the world.

An Illustrated, Unabridged Edition With Appendix (Transmission Of Electricity Without Wires) - Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency: A Lecture Before The Institution Of Electrical Engineers, London, Including A Biographical Sketch Of The Author

The Search is Over "The BIG..." is the complete, defining book on taking an idea from the most basic drawing and hand-holding the reader at each stage of the intellectual property development and management process through to commercialisation, AVOIDING MANY POSSIBLE COSTLY MISTAKES ALONG THE WAY Written in a matter-of-fact way, "The BIG.." has been highly acclaimed, by businesses, universities, national institutuions and business advisors alike. Packed with 220 pages of information and case studies, "The BIG..." is written in a matter of fact way; no legal or technical jargon; just a straight forward, practical and easy-to-read book on everything you will need to know in developing and comercialising an idea. "The BIG..." is ideal for would-be entrepreneurs, students and acadmics, those working in large corporate concerns, business intermediaries and financial advisors. Whether you are an aspiring inventor working from home or in the R&D department of a major institution, this book is an essential read. I know of no other book like it Dr John Beacham CBE; DSc; FRSC Former Senior Innovation Advisor to the UK government's Department of Trade and Industry (now the DBERR) Having an idea is easy; doing something with it is often so difficult. Robs book removes the mystery and the barriers, taking you through each stage of the process in an uncomplicated, easy-to-read style Nigel Spencer Operations and Services Directorate The British Library, London If there is a way of avoiding costly mistakes, then this is a defining book. We would recommend that our students and clients read it from front to back before embarking on their next project. Peter Ford Head of Design De Montfort University, UK Rob Lucas, the author of "The BIG..." works to one rule in exploiting intellectual property: "Maximise the opportunity, minimise the risk." His background spans many years in managing a wide range of intellectual property across many industrial and institutional sectors for would be entrepreneurs and companies. Robs recent creation of the British Librarys e-learning courses on developing and managing IP is recognised and used by individuals and professionals around the world. He has advised both regional and central government including the DTI, OSI, DfES and HM Treasury on intellectual property management and innovation strategies. As well as contributing to publications on the subject of idea development and commercialisation, Rob has featured on both TV and radio. Robs training courses in intellectual property management have become an invaluable tool for both industry and institutions alike.

Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars had begun to replace horsecars, sparking a revolution in urban transportation. Sprague (1857 1934) was an American naval officer turned inventor who worked briefly for Thomas Edison before striking out on his own. Sprague contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His innovations would help transform the urban space of the 20th century, enabling cities to grow larger and skyscrapers taller. The Middletons generously illustrated biography is an engrossing study of the life and times of a maverick innovator."

In "Lincoln the Inventor," Jason Emerson offers the first treatment of Abraham Lincoln's invention of a device to buoy vessels over shoals and its subsequent patent as more than mere historical footnote. In this book, Emerson shows how, when, where, and why Lincoln created his invention; how his penchant for inventions and inventiveness was part of his larger political belief in internal improvements and free labor principles; how his interest in the topic led him to try his hand at scholarly lecturing; and how Lincoln, as president, encouraged and even contributed to the creation of new weapons for the Union during the Civil War. During his extensive research, Emerson also uncovered previously unknown correspondence between Lincoln's son, Robert, and his presidential secretary, John Nicolay, which revealed the existence of a previously unknown draft of Abraham Lincoln's lecture "Discoveries and Inventions." Emerson not only examines the creation, delivery, and legacy of this lecture, but also reveals for the first time how Robert Lincoln owned this unknown version, how he lost and later tried to find it, the indifference with which Robert and Nicolay both held the lecture, and their decision to give it as little attention as possible when publishing President Lincoln's collected works. The story of Lincoln's invention extends beyond a boat journey, the whittling of some wood, and a trip to the Patent Office; the invention had ramifications for Lincoln's life from the day his flatboat got stuck in 1831 until the day he died in 1865. Besides giving a complete examination of this important--and little known--aspect of Lincoln's life, "Lincoln the Inventor" delves into the ramifications of Lincoln's intellectual curiosity and inventiveness, both as a civilian and as president, and considers how it allows a fresh insight into his overall character and contributed in no small way to his greatness. "Lincoln the Inventor" is a fresh contribution to the field of Lincoln studies about a topic long neglected. By understanding Lincoln the inventor, we better understand Lincoln the man.

You and Your Big Ideas! is all about you. Each chapter contains valuable information and advice that will allow you to achieve your goals sooner rather than later and at much less cost (emotional and financial) to you. To help you make your way easily and quickly through the contents, the book is divided into five parts. It also has a Best Bets section where I introduce the go-to people who have consistently been there for me and helped me reach my dreams while they simplified my life. There is a handy Resource Guide located at the back where you can quickly access the contact information mentioned throughout the book. From the initial idea stage to the final stage of commercialization, the inventor will find a friend and partner in "You & Your Big Ideas."

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Arranged In Numerical Order. A Supplement To The Manual Of Classification. Revised To January 1, 1912.

This book is intended to introduce teachers and students to science fair projects that can be adapted to business projects.In the course of exploring these projects steps are given to allow students to develop their inventive skills.

Pow! This small book packs a big punch! Every paragraph is full of energy. The inventions range from a machine to stop a hurricane to better sex to living through a heart attack! Some inventions are methods. You can use these inventions immediately since they require no parts. Read about dozens of inventions that will change the world. You will own one of these inventions soon!

In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first practical incandescent electric light in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, ushering in an era driven by electricity. ""The Electric Light"" is an enlightening look at this monumental achievement, examining how the lightbulb was partly responsible for transforming the country's agrarian economy into the modern industrial economy it is today.