Inventors

I greatly admire your invention of the pivotal even legged bench. Would your patent also cover odd legged benches, and those whose legs are round?

Just razzin ya.

Good idea for a subject.

"Genius is the ability to assemble in new forms that which already exists"

Donald J. Trump 2006

I'm no "Genius" but it's good to know Donald thinks so. See my web site www.handyscrubglove.com

What a fascinating idea!

This brings to mind the classic old adage, "Necessity, the Mother of Invention" I can bet you 10 quid, someone's going to ask who the Father of Invention was/ is / will be.

Of neccessity came parthenogenicity

No bet; but I've always found "Necessity is an Inventive Mother" to be more applicable.

Did the Wright brothers need a heavier than air flying machine? When Edison invented sound recording he could not think of a good application for it. The management of BEL labs were not exactly bowled over by the invention of the transistor. Of course I am not saying necessity is not a motivation for invention. Just that many good ideas are thought up initially with little or no commercial prospect in view.

I've always thought that laziness was the "Mother of Invention".

Necessity is the mother of invention, but the father is unknown. That is why invention can be such a BASTARD!!

In reality though I like the idea of your blog. Go for it! But I couldn't resist the above paragraph.

Bill

Excellent! It really is good to see chaps of the engineering persuasion with a sense of humour. Keep it up! This brings to mind an incident I experienced as a young infantryman, a kind of induction into the South African Military one might say.....

There we were, nearly 2500 brand new fresh out of school conscripts, all lined up and up struts this "DAEMON FRESH FROM THE JAWAS OF HELL" and says in his most polite, genteel sarn't majors voice:

"I is yours MUDDER, the armee she is your FARVER, and as yous is knowing, We are neffer married"

(This is not incorrect spelling but rather a variation of English spoken with an Afrikaans accent)

All I can say is that bless the poor SOB who inquired as to whether the C.S.M. was calling us bastards or not. And that gentle people of the CR 4 site, is how the men of the Fighting 5th, sustained there first casualty.

Okay, now back to the subject, I'm going to invent a C.S.M that will be born without vocal cords.

I find that I am satisfied with my own designs. I admire an elegant, well thought out design that meets it functionality with simplicity and durability. I see planned obsolescence as crass and design limitations that leave the buyer with a barely functional device as rude and arrogant. I design for economy and function with durability. But after my prototypes are developed into market products, the buyers usually have other engineers go over it and they usually screw it up before it goes to market. At least mine works the way I designed it to work. I try to stay with prototypes I have use for in my home, shop, or garden rather than rare application prototypes.

I do my homework first. I study patents on line and look over schematics for equipment that uses processes I may need in my design. Over half of my time is used to study and paper sorting. I study in libraries most of the time and when I am working on a prototype I'm also considering who would be most benefited by buying my prototype.

I think of what I do as a service. I'm usually well paid after the proofs are in at the buyers expense. Having a working prototype for the buyer to show-off is worth it's weight in gold.

I prefer to minimize legalities and have never had a prototype stolen. Of course I have copies of lab notes and development history so nothing can be stolen.

Thanks but I did all of that the first month. I'm talking lic. rights at this time.

Al Sing