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Quiz: Can You Guess What These Inventions Were Supposed to Do? – Slate Magazine

June 13, 2014

Slate Magazine

Quiz: Can You Guess What These Inventions Were Supposed to Do? Slate Magazine The Patent Act of 1790 tackled this issue by requiring all patent applicants to submit a scaled-down model of their invention. This spawned a vibrant industry of professional patent model makers. They crafted hundreds of thousands of models before the …

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What fictional inventions say about American ingenuity. – Slate Magazine

April 24, 2014

Slate Magazine

What fictional inventions say about American ingenuity. Slate Magazine Twentieth-century popular culture is full of frivolous, ill-conceived, ambitious inventions, as well as clueless or venal inventors. But some of the best invention humor has its roots in the 1920s and 1930s. Why was this period prime time for satirical … and more »

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