Article: Inventors start here - at a price

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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