Top Items About Inventions

Type	Title	Teaser	Author	Views
Trivia	Alexander Graham Bell vs Thomas Edison - telephone greetings	When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly...	root	179
Anecdotes	Nakanuts	With 3,000 inventions, Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats, the eccentric founder of the yearly World Genius Convention in Tokyo, may be...	Anonymous	85
Anecdotes	Smart Brick	In 2003, professor Chang Liu and his team of structural engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...	Anonymous	74
Jokes	Sick Xerox paper joke	"The Xerox company announced that they have created a new kind of paper that kills fewer trees. A spokesman said,...	root	71
Anecdotes	Richard Branson & the pterodactyl flying machine	In 1977, [Richard Branson] took an inadvertent spin on a sort of tricycle that had huge wings and an outboard motor--it...	root	60
Jokes	inventor of Muzak	"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else." -- Lily...	root	52
Images	Dear god 2	...	root	49
Anecdotes	Blunt Order	One day Cardinal Richelieu became disgusted with the barbaric practice (common until the seventeenth century) of...	Anonymous	48
Images	the umbrella hat	...	root	46
Anecdotes	Sticky Situation	One day in 1948, a Swiss engineer named George de Mestral found himself in a sticky situation. Returning from a walk in...	Anonymous	42

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