Long live bubble wrap!
So what do they ship Bubble Wrap in?
I love popping that stuff. Don’t know why, but it’s really fun.
My mother pops that crap whenever she gets it. She snaps her gum too. Sounds the same.
When I worked at DEC the Asian girls used to take the large bubble pack for their children to dance on at their new year thing... so the fathers would not toss firecrackers at the dancing childrens feet.
The hand lettering in the patent drawings is super cool. Look at how he did “Fig.”
Pla-Doh and Post It notes were accidents also.
The word is “serendipity”—recognizing tht your failure is a success under different constraints. My first patent was the result of recognizing the benefit of a failure of one of my experiments. Not as wildly popular as Bubble Wrap, though!
It didn’t start out as a bright idea, but it eventually ended up as one.
Spriral-sliced ham is another such “invention”. Miscalibrated slicer.
/j
*pop*
*pop*pop*pop*pop*
Just a few white men ruining the world! :-)
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How many plastic straws would that make?
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
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.
***”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.
