Ingenious Patents (Revised): Bubble Wrap, Barbed Wire, Bionic Eyes, and Other Pioneering Inventions

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Ben Ikenson Jay Bennett

Ingenious Patents (Revised)

Bubble Wrap, Barbed Wire, Bionic Eyes, and Other Pioneering Inventions

Ben Ikenson, Jay Bennett

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HACH
10 April 2018

Mathematics & Sciences; Inventions & inventors

Discover some of the most innovative 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. Updated and reformatted from the original 2004 edition, INGENIOUS PATENTS presents each device along with background about the inventor, interesting sidebars and history, and an excerpt from the original patent application. Liberally sprinkled throughout are photos of original models and patent diagrams created by the inventors themselves and annotated to show exactly how each item works.

Entries include creative commercial successes in fields as diverse as medicine, aeronautics, computing, agriculture, and consumer goods. Readers are certain to find a topic of interest here, whether it is the history behind the patent for a Pez dispenser, cathode ray tube, kitty litter, DNA fingerprinting, or the design of a Fender Stratocaster guitar.

By: Ben Ikenson, Jay Bennett
Imprint: HACH
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 244mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 1.110kg
ISBN: 9780316438490
ISBN 10: 0316438499
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 10 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay Bennett, an editor at PopularMechanics.com, has also written for Smithsonian, Popular Science, Outside Magazine, and Major League Baseball. He lives in Brooklyn. Ben Ikenson is a freelance writer. His articles on wildlife conservation have appeared in regional, national, and international magazines, including Americas, Earth Island Journal, Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine, North American Sportsman Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, and American Indian Report.