Posted on 01/29/2019 2:40:35 PM PST by Red Badger
How many plastic straws would that make?
have at it Edna:
http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html
It’s very therapeutic to pop it...but it’s better to be the popper than the one within earshot!
Especially if you’re a cat or dog.
Good story. I learned something new today.
I believe that Lexan was also an accidental discovery.
https://classroom.synonym.com/what-is-lexan-made-out-of-12078855.html
LOL! She needs it!
I put out some bubble wrap on the floor and then called my dog. She walked across it, it started popping and she jumped up like she had been shocked.
Fun times.
Where on earth did you find that?
Apparently White Out was as well.
Oooooh thanks!
Mike Nesmith’s mother had a hand in the invention of liquid paper. She made a mint off it.
Another accidental “invention” was the use of Super Glue to bring out fingerprints.
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***”Method for Making Laminated Cushioning Material,” patented July 28, 1964 (U.S. Pat. No. 3,142,599) ***
And to think, back around 1800, there was talk of doing away with the Patent Office because everything had already been invented, they thought.
A supervisor in the Carbon Research Engineering Department at Standard Registor Co un Dayton Ohio accidentally seared the plastic on his Sunday white shirt from the cleaners before church. He took out a patient but a couple of guys in NJ had a company and started making his patient. They said, “ so sue us”. I remember as a young boy hearing my father talk with his boss and how they had no money to get a lawyer so his invention was stolen. Nice fluff piece though.
Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”
I don't know how many constitutions of nations (among the subset of nations that even have a constitution) have patents and copyrights specified therein.
It is a mark of genius of the Founding Fathers, especially Madison, who commented that the inclusion of such a clause would be virtually indisputable and universally accepted.
This is the REAL value of the Constitution.
Just as the real value of the First Amendment is not to allow pervs and troublemakers to spout off: It is instead to allow free dissemination of uncensored scientific and technical journals of a useful nature.
In the hope that people will sit down with a coffee and read and think about what the Constitution provides for, and what remarkable things have ensued from its ratification....
To my surprise, I found an office machine to make it on-demand. Wow.
Light coat of Vaseline on the face screws the photorecognition systems.
I should not have posted that, but... whatever.
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