The Nature of Invention 🔬
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2023 is the 104th anniversary of the publishing of John McCrae's (1872-1918)🇨🇦 'In Flanders Fields and Other Poems.' First published in Punch magazine, In Flanders Fields led to the 1921 adoption of the poppy as the symbol for the British & Commonwealth war dead.
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Everything outside of nature has to be invented. Some credit British🇬🇧statesman John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich as the 'inventor' of the sandwich for having meat placed between bread so he could eat & play cards. 🤔
We'll call it an #innovation .
Nov 3 is #NationalSandwichDay .
Since November 1 is celebrated as the #DayOfTheDead we thought we'd tweet this interesting article by IPWatchdog, detailing (wait for it!) #patents designed for persons mistakenly thought dead who were buried & how they could contact those above ground.
ipwatchdog.com/2021/10/30/pat…
Died #OTD 🎃ct. 31, 1926,
U.S. 🇺🇸magician Harry Houdini (b: 1874). He was an innovator & inventor. But to protect his illusions, he largely avoided the patent process to conceal his inventive nature. This Smithsonian Magazine piece is for you on #Halloween . 🎃
smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…
#OTD October 26, 1858 (pre-Civil War), a significant U.S. #patent 🔻was issued to Hamilton E. Smith of Philadelphia🇺🇸. Though there had been previous washing machines invented and patented, Smith's #innovation was his #invention of the world's first rotary washing machine design.