Short stories of human inventions
Archive for February, 2010
Lexus LFA is Really a Great Invention of Technology
Feb 16th
Technology has brought forward different types of cars in order to make the life of man more luxurious and comfortable. Not only do these different types of super cars serve a great purpose but at the same time they are also wonderful and stylish to look at. Some of these recent inventions include the Lexus LFA and the Lexus CT 200h.
The Lexus LFA is basically a kind of sports car. In fact, the Lexus LFA was designed to run side by side with the Ferrari and Lamborghini. The car has now undergone nearly 10 years of development. It was launched More >
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets Protect Your Invention!
Feb 9th
Patent numbers are issued sequentially, beginning with the number one. Patent number one was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31,1790. It took 75 years for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to issue patent number 1,000,000. Patent number 7,000,000 was issued February 14, 2006. It took only seven years for the USPTO to move from issuance of patent number 6,000,000 to 7,000,000.
What does this mean? Simply, there is more creativity now that at any time in history. The old saw that “there is nothing new” is completely wrong. There has never been so many people and entities More >
The Invention of Adolescence
Feb 4th
A little more than a century ago, adolescence was unrecognised, undiscovered, unknown and organized. Most young people between the ages of twelve and eighteen worked on family arms, engaged in wage labour, and grew up in the company of adults. A handful of relatively high born young people went on to college. Graduation from high school was a privilege of relatively prosperous town dwellers (Tim and Frank, 2001). Strictly speaking, there were no adolescents one hundred years ago. Adolescence is a historically grounded social invention, the product of concerted attempts of socially and morally anxious nineteenth and twentieth-century developmental psychologists, More >
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