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Article: Inventors start here - at a price
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Inventive site: Bearers of bright ideas are invited to post
them at Inventors Corner (http://www.harrogate.com/ invent/), a
showcase for would-be whizz kids, and for the developers and
sponsors needed to give substance to their intuitions. This new,
UK- based commercial site encourages contributors to aim high,
welcoming them with a cheerful cartoon of Albert Einstein, but the
few inventions detailed so far are rather more mundane: hydraulic
systems, glass fibre moulds and an electric bottle opener. Perhaps
realising this, the authors have enlivened their page with
Victorian patents for such devices as the Pedespeed, a wobbly
precursor of rollerblades that threatened to transform the buyer ...
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