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Title: Patents: Ingenious Inventions -- How They Work and How They Came to Be by Ben Ikenson ISBN: 1-57912-367-8 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: fun, interesting, educational, and fun
Comment: The first thing that attracts you to this book is its cover, which is half ensconced in a thin layer of a laminated cushioning material (also known as bubble wrap, Patent Number 3,142,599; July 28, 1964 granted to M. A. Chavannes of Brooklyn, for a method of making bubble wrap). This book celebrates a few of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson issued the first one in 1790. For each patent, Mr. Ikenson provides that patent name, number, date, the person granted the patent (not always the inventor) and the assignee of the patent, if necessary. These are followed by explanations and drawings about what the item does, how it works, and then a statement in the inventor's own words.
Included in this book are dynamite, the artificial heart, the airplane (wright), camera (wolcott), helicopter (sikorsky), cotton gin (whitney, 1794), gas motor engine (otto), light bulb (edison, glowing filament in a glass globe), neutronic/nuclear reactor (fermi and szilard), penicillin production method (moyer), transistor (shockley), rocket (goddard), skyscraper steel (bessemer), and most importantly, the Lava Lamp (walker, 1971).
Along the way, you will notice how some of the corporate names now popular are based on companies that were created around the inventor and patent, such as rubber vulcanization (goodyear), frozen food (birdseye), door lock (yale, 1844)and corn flakes process (kellogg, 1919). Additional patents include ones for the chia pet (1994), traffic signal (1923), bra, astro turf, kitty litter, adhesive bandage (bandaid, assigned to johnson and johnson in 1958), zipper (1893), velsro (155), prozac, viagra, kevlar, pez dispenser (and how it works), slinky, roller skates , bar codes, and barbed wire, to name just a few.
Rating: 5
Summary: A really fantastic read. Definitely worth the price!
Comment: I received my copy of "Patents: Ingenious Inventions" last week and have already flown through it cover to cover. It is just the right mix of intelligent information and humor to keep just about anyone interested. Another great asset is the numerous topics the book covers. My personal favorite was the chapter on genetic engineering, but there are so many I am sure others will have different favorites. I really recommend this book to anyone with an inquisitive mind and a funny bone. Enjoy!
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Title: Magnificent Mars by Ken Croswell ISBN: 0743226011 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle (John MacRae Books) by Eric Lax ISBN: 0805067906 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Patent It Yourself (PATENT IT YOURSELF) by David Pressman ISBN: 0873378016 Publisher: Nolo Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill ISBN: 0385495536 Publisher: Nan A. Talese Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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