Reading Time: 5 minutes In order to get your invention idea started, you must first make a few decisions. Decide if you will sell invention as a product to customers or whether you want to tinker with it to have fun. You then should
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Reading Time: 6 minutes You have a great invention idea and have already figured out that the only way it will be successful is if you can get a prototype made. Building a prototype may seem like an expensive and impossible task, but with
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Alexander Graham Bell is known as the man who invented the telephone in 1876. He was a visionary who changed the way people communicated. Bell contributed significantly to how the world is today. His groundbreaking invention enabled people from all
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Cyrus McCormick was born into a home where inventing was the family business. His father, Robert McCormick Jr., was an inventor who worked on making improvements to farming machines. Among those improvements was the mechanical reaper. Robert worked on this
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Most of us give up on our dreams of inventing something because it seems too challenging. Maybe we lack the skills needed to build a prototype or fear that we may fail. Whatever your reason, it’s just an excuse not
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Guglielmo Marconi was born on the 25th of April, 1874, in Bologna, Italy. Marconi was one of the most important innovators that changed the way the world communicates. His invention of the radio was a groundbreaking invention that had significant
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Every child is creative and has a dream of becoming the hero who invents the next cure for cancer or a new form of green energy. Some children may want to invent a new musical instrument or send astronauts to
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Reading Time: 7 minutes In 1769, a machine was patented by Richard Arkwright that would see him go from wig maker to industrial tycoon. His Water Frame brought hydropower to spinning machines, which would enable the devices to turn hundreds of threads into high-quality,
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