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Good Morning #Canada
A Canadian inventor gave Mothers across North America a device that was beneficial and a little scary. We are, of course, talking about the Jolly Jumper, once referred to as "the Canadian Nanny" on a 1957 CBC broadcast. Susan Olivia Poole (1889–1975) was an Indigenous Canadian inventor who created the Jolly Jumper in 1910, but it was not until 1948 that they were produced for the retail market, and patented in 1957. They continue to be manufactured in Ontario by the company that purchased the rights in 1960.

#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
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OCTADE
6,000 Patents Hidden By The Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act

Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

#patents #USPTO #inventions #inventors #secrecy #laws #Tesla #USGov #Government #NationalSecurity #GagOrders

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Journeys In Film

August is National Inventor’s Month and we’re celebrating The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This Netflix film is based on the true story of William Kamkwamba, whose creativity, persistence and courage as a schoolboy provided a solution to devastating drought for his family and eventually many others in his country of Malawi and beyond.

We offer a Discussion Guide and a Curriculum Guide with classroom-ready lessons for this film, to make it easy to work with in different settings. Students can learn more about wind power and the physics of generating electricity, as well as lessons in English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film Studies and more. These are powerful resource to inspire young inventors in your classroom!

journeysinfilm.org/film/the-bo

@stemed @education @edutooters

#Education#Homeschooling#Edutooters
Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Be the person that sees the opportunities that others cannot see!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

It's 1982.

And instead of naming a "Person of the Year," Time Magazine names "The Machine of the Year." It's a nod to the potentially revolutionary impact that personal computer technology might have on our future.

And it was right about that time that I committed myself fully to taking part, determined to build a career in this fascinating new world of technology. Within a year, I was subsumed into the online world, discovering via a modem what happens when global connectivity changes forever. I knew something big was happening, and wanted to be a part of it.

I could see something that others would not yet see for a decade or more.

Do you find yourself in that situation? Seeing trends that others can't see, a future to chase that others dare not chase, a new reality that has yet to move beyond the inconceivable for most other people?

Seeing unique opportunities for tomorrow means becoming a futurist for yourself, your purveyor of a different tomorrow, a unique individual who has a lens that distorts today's reality into something different the next day. It means doubling down on your belief in the opportunities that might unfold tomorrow, rather than chasing those that might exist only within today's limited reality.

Study any great invention, and you discover the people who see things differently - and who were dismissed at the time for the errors in their vision.

#Opportunities #Vision #Innovation #Future #Uniqueness #Inspiration #Inventors #Trends #Creativity #Leadership

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-i

EGU

Depending on whom you ask, #NikolaTesla is regarded as one of the most genius #inventors and eccentric researchers of all time. And yet, over two centuries later, the world is yet to fully understand him! Today on #NikolaTeslaDay we try to discover the man behind the name.
Read now: egu.eu/6WFMYC/

GeoLogTwo centuries later, the world is yet to fully understand Nikola TeslaMost people associate Tesla with the multi-billion American automotive and clean energy company, and by that extension, with Elon Musk. But with today (July 10th) being Nikola Tesla Day, it gives us a rare opportunity to discover the man behind the name – the Serbian American scientist who contributed to scientific progress and advances in technology that we still heavily rely on today. Tesla is credited with the discovery of the rotating magnetic field, the invention of the Tesla coil and alternating-current (AC) electricity. He is also said to have worked on the foundations of wireless communication and energy transfer, as early as the 1900s. But perhaps Tesla’s most intriguing and controversial undertaking was what many called the “earthquake machine”. Now if you think that sounds a tad sensationalist, Tesla himself claimed that it nearly shook a city block off the ground! It began in 1896 with Tesla studying resonance and oscillations to transfer energy. His idea was to create a steam-powered oscillator which would be able to create various frequencies. Tesla hypothesized that if the frequency matched the resonance frequency (think of a violin’s note shattering a wine glass) a receiving device should transform the mechanical oscillations back into an electric current. The story goes that Tesla tested this hypothesis by attaching his oscillator to a steel girder in his laboratory, which shook the neighbourhood in earthquake-like tremors. With the police on their way, Tesla allegedly resorted to smashing his device with a hammer. The real question of course is whether this story is more legend than fact. Sergio Vinciguerra, President of EGU’s Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics Division says, “The idea of transforming mechanical energy from seismic waves into electrical energy can stand theoretically, but in practice inducing the shaking of a structure to trigger this phenomenon is not realistically feasible. Waiting for a natural earthquake is not realistic as well. The legend of the earthquake that Tesla induced in New York has not been confirmed. I find it more interesting that he understood the potential of the oscillator in terms of probe for exploring the inner structure of Earth. This is where the research has developed.”   This tesla coil snuffed out the power in Colorado Springs when this photo was taken. Photo by Dickenson V. Alley, photographer at the Century Magazines via Wikimedia Commons.   A little over a decade ago while I was still in university, I remember reading (and then re-reading) a 1912 newspaper clipping of Allan L. Benson’s article called “Nikola Tesla, Dreamer: His three-day ship to Europe and his scheme to split the Earth”. Tesla confided in the reporter that if he wanted to, he could have laid a half-erected building in shambles in the Wall Street district. And using the same principle, he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour. Depending on whom you ask, Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the most genius inventors and eccentric researchers of all time. But there is no contesting his vision for a future that few could comprehend, much less dare to prove in their lifetime. Tesla is often quoted as saying, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” But some of his bolder quotes are seldom referenced, such as when he declared: “If I cannot send a message to a ship at sea, send it without wires, and make the message understood to those aboard the ship, I am willing to lay my head on the block.” And guess what? Three years later, Tesla obtained American patents for a system of wireless telegraphy. Although he discovered how to transmit radio signals by tuning them to resonate at the same frequency, Tesla was reportedly devastated when the U.S. Patent Office gave Guglielmo Marconi – an Italian researcher in England – a patent for the invention of radio. Marconi went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1911, crushing Tesla’s spirits and leading him to sue the Marconi Company for infringement, despite his lack of funds to follow through on the case. It was only a few months after his death that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tesla’s radio patent number 645,576, but sadly the scientist did not live to hear the news. Because of the many rumors and mysteries surrounding Tesla’s experiments, and because so many of his discoveries were ahead of their time, he was often mocked and ridiculed for his research. One night in his laboratory, Tesla noticed that his transmitter was picking up a repeating signal, which led him to believe that he was receiving a signal from outer space. Some conspiracy theorists say Tesla “communicated with aliens”, but it is far more likely that he was the first man to detect radio waves from space. The world in which we operate today and the means by which you’re reading this blog were once incomprehensible to people of Tesla’s time. He envisioned a world system much like ours now: one that is able to relay phone messages across the ocean, broadcast news, music and private messages, transmit secure military communications, and send pictures to people in any part of the world. “When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts,” Tesla explained. Even when large-scale funders like J. P. Morgan gave up on him, Tesla insisted that his visions were in fact not a dream. “It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive… (this is a) blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.”
Laura SSM

#Inventors #TVPioneer #PhiloTFarnsworth #Photography #JoanCrawford

El sistema experimental de TV de Philo T. Farnsworth utilizaba un tubo de rayos catódicos para crear la imagen mediante un bombardeo de electrones sobre una superficie del tubo especialmente tratada.
𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰 𝘛. 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩’𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘝 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘣𝘦

Joan Crawford on a cathode tube, The Franklin Institute, PA, 1934

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