Is it usefulness, accidental genius, or sheer dumb luck that produces inventions? Well, after this episode, we at least know for sure what Batman’s answer would be. As for the rest of it, you’ll just have to listen along while we dive into one of Ceri’s dream topics: Inventions!
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[This or That]
Pacemaker
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3232561/
Snow globe
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-25298507
Stethoscope
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1570491/
https://www.thoughtco.com/rene-laenecc-stethoscope-1991647
[The Scientific Definition]
Pigeon Vest
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/pigeons-bras-go-war
Bat Bomb
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1090bats/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-almost-perfect-world-war-ii-plot-to-bomb-japan-with-bats
Chicken Eyeglasses
https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-chickens-once-wore-glasses-to-stop-them-ki-1700343874
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/11/27/entrepreneur-wants-a-lens-in-every/
https://extension.psu.edu/poultry-cannibalism-prevention-and-treatment
https://patents.google.com/patent/US730918
Experiment (patent in category “Boats to ascend rivers”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=K1YdAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=z0Avt3ruFx0C&pg=PA294#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/the-search-for-lost-x
[Ask the Science Couch]
“Ahead of their time” inventions (Undersea cables, Antikythera mechanism, electric cars)
https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/historyculture/french-transatlantic-cable.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w
https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-early-electric-cars
Patreon bonus: Patent law and whether you can apply without a prototype
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/100
https://www.legal.uillinois.edu/services/legal_guidance/inventions_and_patents
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2109.html
https://improbable.com/2014/02/21/the-blonsky-centrifugal-birthing-device-in-dublin/
[Butt One More Thing]
John Henry Kellog’s vibratory dining chair for bowel movements
https://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/k-chair.htm
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition-history-quackery/enigmatic-dr-kellogg
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