Brainstorms and Mindfarts

The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American History

Brainstorms and Mindfarts
Tom Connor, Jim Downey
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Hardback
h191 x 140mm - 240pg
13 May 2021 US
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9780762472444
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The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But with over 500,000 applications now being filed annually, fewer than half of these applicants will be granted patents and far fewer still will realize commercial success. Some are flawed by mistakes or missing details, others too ridiculous to take seriously, still others simply ahead of their time. From the best and worst to the wackiest and most bizarre inventions and products -- from the horse headlight and Viagra to a motorized spaghetti fork and Slinky -- this collection of 100 life-altering and entertaining patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office includes humorous and informative descriptions of each patent and dozens of original diagrams, figures, and illustrations. The guide also provides insight into the creation and execution of great and not-so-great ideas, what most successful patents have in common, and how great inventors view the world.
Connor & Downey are the co-authors and -producers of a dozen and a half books, as well as the authors of the national best-selling parodies Is Martha Stuart Living? , Martha Stuart' s Better Than You at Entertaining, and The Smyth ' n Hawk' em Gardening Catalog. Their projects range from humor and satire to pop culture, politics, design, and style. Jim Downey works as a marketing copywriter and satirist while Tom Connor is the head of the literary agency Tom Connor & Associates.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780762472444
Published: 13 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Running Press Adult
Publisher: Running Press US
Format: Hardback
Height: 191mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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