If you've ever wondered why famed engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk named his electric vehicle company after Nikola Tesla and not Thomas Edison, the short answer is this: Tesla undeniably beat Edison in the battle over electricity.
This instrument is commonplace today. But when it was first invented, someone said "an amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?" The Doubting Thomases were talking about a cool new invention called the telephone. Inventions start off like that. Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention.
As schoolchildren, we learned the names of famous inventors from history: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison. Ask someone to name a famous modern-day inventor, though, and you'll probably get a blank look. Today's heroes are celebrities: Actors, athletes, singers.
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One of our favorite parts of last year's GeekWire Summit was the introduction of a new segment we called " Inventions We Love." Five entrepreneurs with especially geeky products - from smart socks to asteroid mining drones- took the stage for three-minute pitches and some light-hearted banter from Todd Bishop and me.
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We have just been to the Saith Technologies Open Day and a lot of what we witnessed has to be the next thing in energy and communication not just in Zimbabwe but possibly in the world. Sangulani (Maxwell) Chikumbutso is a Zimbabwean inventor who has come up with various disruptive technologies that will shift the way science is working.
Necessity isn't always the mother of invention. Lots of the things we rely on to cure our diseases, cook our meals, and sweeten our days weren't deliberately designed. Instead, they were a happy accident. Read on to see how society-shaping inventions - from Coca-Cola to penicillin and the microwave oven - came about by chance.
An invention is defined as a device, method or process developed from study and experimentation. When a invention is created it can be protected by a patent. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state or national government given to an inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for ...
In 1876, Edison opened his most famous laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Over the next five years, he developed a telephone transmitter, the phonograph, and the first system of incandescent electric light and power. After moving into New York to oversee the commercialization of his electric light system, Edison used the laboratories at his manufacturing shops to improve lighting technology.