21. 19th Century Scientific American Online Credited with inventing the first practical sewing machine. This biography is from Scientific American Online. http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm

Elias Howe first heard the term sewing machine while working in Boston for Ari Davis, who made and repaired precision instruments. People had been trying to invent such a device for half a century in America and abroad, without any great success. Some early devices patented in England simply did not work. A functional sewing machine, introduced by French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier in 1830, roused tailors to radical action. Fearing that they would be put out of business by the laborsaving equipment, they stormed and destroyed Thimonnier's eightymachine plant. The inventor fled and later died a bankrupt. In 1834, Walter Hunt, credited with creating a forerunner of the Winchester re peating rifle and the safety pin, built America's first sewing machine but lost interest in a device he saw as a destroyer of jobs. But Ari Davis thought such a machine would make someone a fortune, and Howe took his employer's opinions to heart. Born in 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts, Howe had apprenticed to a textile mill at sixteen, then, unemployed after the panic of 1837, moved to the big city to seek work and apprenticed to Davis. By the early 1840s, he had married and had children to support. But Howe, always in frail health, became too ill to work. His wife began to take in sewing to pay the growing family's bills. Watching her at work, Howe realized that no machine would be able to duplicate the motions of hand and arm in sewing. Instead, he hit on a process that used thread from two different sources. A needle with its eye at the point would push through the cloth, creating a loop of thread on the far side; then a shuttle would slip thread through the loop, creating a tight lock stitch.

22. Kid's Inventions On inventing. An invention. can either be a (1) device (apparatus So,what are we waiting for? Start inventing! Examples. inventing a new http://www.noogenesis.com/inventing/kids/kids_page.html

On inventing An invention can either be a: (1) device (apparatus, machine e.g. telephone, pencil, TV., skateboard) or (2) procedure (method, process, such as the steps to coat a thin sheet of plastic, such as tape, or post-em notes ) which has the following two characteristics: (1) New (novel) (2) Useful Inventions are found through study and experimentation, and is to be distinguished from a discovery, which requires exploration, or a chance encounter. Problem formulation When ever something annoys you and becomes a problem, you have the potential of creating a new invention! For example, ask your students what annoys them about a pencil (shoe, glasses, chopsticks). Show them a typical pencil like this: Some answers might include: no eraser, lose them all the time, to hard to hold, etc. Then think of the ways to improve upon the pencil, and you will find many in the store: such as pencils with larger erasers, fat pencils, colorful pencils, etc. Turn on the creative thinking! When "brainstorming" for new ideas and new solutions, it is extremely important not criticize . When one student starts talking about his or her invention, the other students are sure to chime in, saying, oh that won't work, or that's a stupid idea. This must be squelched immediately. Be nonjudgemental, and withhold all judgement at this step of the process. Otherwise, other students will not volunteer anything for fear of being criticized. Absolutely no idea is bad!!!! You can even suggest the worst or most ridiculous ideas, and say its OK.

23. Online Newspapers: Digital Ink 6490. Useful Links for Journalists inventing an Online Newspaper, by MelindaMcAdams Copyright © 1995 by Mindy McAdams. All Rights Reserved. http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/invent.html

By Melinda McAdams Abstract After more than a year's work, The Washington Post 's online service, Digital Ink, was ready to launch. This article recounts the debates and decisions that gave it shape. Despite a commitment to the newspaper metaphor, an online service can never perfectly replicate the newspaper. Some things will always be better in the print format, but the electronic medium allows many options that are not possible on paper. Many of the demands on the staff of an online service are very different from those on traditional journalists. A newspaper (and other mass media) carries information in one direction; an online service operates in two directions, and users of an online newspaper expect involvement and responses from the producers. An online newspaper allows articles to remain available for years ; it presents large collections of data that would never appear in the print product; it is read on screens instead of pages. In many ways, it is not a newspaper at all. At the same time, it contains most of the same articles as today's paper and can be updated around the clock.

24. Inventing Allies In The Sky Kenan Malik reviews 'Rocks of Ages science and religion in the fullness of life' by Stephen Jay Gould. http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200102190041.htm

25. Roller Coasters Encyclopaedia Britannica presents Roller Coasters inventing the Scream Machine,detailing the rise, fall, and rebirth of this thrilling summer pastime. http://coasters.eb.com/

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26. Tufts Classics 189:Greek Science Homepage Spring, 1995. Professor Gregory Crane. Overview of course. Classics 189inventing Science From Thales to Euclid. Selected Reading assignments. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/

Classics 189:Greek Science Spring, 1995 Professor Gregory Crane Overview of course Classics 189: Inventing Science: From Thales to Euclid Selected Reading assignments Week of April 3: The rise of the "social sciences" Herodotus Book 2 :his account of Egypt and the beginnings of "social" science (in this case ethnography). Thuc. 1.1-23 : Demonstration of Scientific Methodology for History. Thuc. 2.48-55 : Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens. Thuc. 3.69-85 : case study of Civil War at Corcyra. Student Projects Short papers and presentations Final papers Help for web projects HTML and tagging: what does it all mean? -A quick and dirty guide to making a web document Back to the Perseus homepage

27. Inventing Situations - Submit Caption To receive email updates on inventing Situations, send an e-mail to inventingsituations-subscribe@ lustforlunch.com http://www.lustforlunch.com/is

That's right, the old style is back. The other thing was just a special send off. Lost Cinema has become Riffed Shorts! - Kind of like MST, only nowhere near as good. Now available in Quicktime and MPEG! General Information Legal Information Go to the gallery Lurker's Gallery ... Give me another Estimated time until next image: 2 seconds / The current time is 7:32 PM Enter your humorous caption: Handle: Go to the gallery Lurker's Gallery Give me another Turkey Weekend 2003 is over ... CAP FANCY - so much for that. SASS month - what happened? What the five fingers really said to the face. (Celebrity "news"? Catch phrases? I'm ashamed, but I couldn't resist.) Shorts supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at www.archive.org ) in association with Prelinger Archives. Send all comments and problems (about this page) to caption@lustforlunch.com To receive e-mail updates on Inventing Situations, send an e-mail to inventingsituations-subscribe@lustforlunch.com

28. Inventing For Money Book for inventors regarding the invention process. http://www.roundsmiller.com/ilabdetails.htm

29. Tony Robinson Interview On Teletext Interview with Tony Robinson originally broadcast on the ITV1 Teletext service in December 2001, reproduced by Time Team Links. http://www.timeteamlinks.co.uk/tony_robinson_teletext_interview.htm

Re-Inventing Baldrick by Derek Robins Interview with Tony Robinson originally broadcast on the ITV1 Teletext service in December 2001 and reproduced here with the kind permission of T e L e ... T Ltd. Tony Robinson is undoubtedly a master of re-invention. First he was Blackadder's sidekick Baldrick, then the host of Channel 4 archaeology series Time Team, and now he rubs shoulders with PM Tony Blair as a member of Labour's National Executive Committee. Tony Robinson, 55, loves the multiple facets of his career. "The nice thing is people recognise me for all the different things I do," he says. Recognition comes in various guises for Tony Robinson star of Black adder and Time Team, and Labour NEC member. He says: "Blackadder fans call out Blackadder's catchphrase 'I have a cunning plan', Time Team lovers want me to dig up their gardens, while Tories shout 'You Labour idiot'. "Kids also remember me as the scary Sheriff of Nottingham in my kids' series Maid Marian And Her Merry Men in the '90s."

30. For Professionals - Inventing Resources assessment market commercialization confidential disclosure agreements - selectedcollection of books about the business of inventing - non-disclosure http://inventors.about.com/cs/basicshowtoinvent/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Inventors Professional Inventing Home Essentials 20th Century Inventions - Timelines History of Computers/Internet ... Industrial Revolution zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Famous Inventions Famous Inventors Black Inventors Women Inventors ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Inventors newsletter. Search Inventors For Professionals - Inventing Resources Inventing resources for professional and aspiring inventors includes: prototypes, glossary, sample forms and contracts, articles on the invention and business process, creativity and contact points. Alphabetical Recent Patenting, Marketing, and Inventing Advice Articles on patenting, marketing, and inventing written by experts in their fields. Turning an Invention Idea Into Money Get educated in how the whole process works with basic lessons on how to potential turn an idea into a money making invention. Understanding What An Invention Assessment Is Getting an invention assessment serves two main purposes: one, you find out if it is worthwhile to put more money into a certain idea and two, when you are trying to raise venture capital, sell or license your ideas, you will be ready with the hard business facts that can impress a potential investor or buyer.

31. Kids' Pages About Inventing Pages about inventing for students K12 - three grade areas k-6 and 6-12 and teacher- Learn about the invention process and how to patent your ideas. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa073000a.htm

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32. Post Stamp An exhibit of artists who have reinvented the postage stamp. New stamps designs include the 3D stamp, stamps for the blind and the pocket envelope stamp. http://www.geocities.com/niceprogram/Post_stamp/post_stamp.htm

post stamp Exhibition: Re inventing the post stamp March 2000 in the Newtown Castle Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan Co Clare Ireland. I n reinventing the post stamp the artists focused on the actual mechanism behind the stamp. To top it all the concept of the new reinvented post stamp must be non functional B ut why would we tend to remake something that originally functions in such a way that its concept is annihilated? In this case we are talking about communication and its most widespread tariff, the stamp. There are several reasons of wanting to make a stamp non-functional both internally and externally. The result of any is that the letter will not arrive to its destination. Does that interest us, or not? No because we don't really want to communicate (we are just talking to ourselves) we can not communicate (we do not know the way people live together) the system stops us from communicating anyway (too expensive, too slow, barriers of any kind Yes because a post stamp is very small but you can not ignore it.

33. Roller Coasters Encyclopedia Britannica details the rise, fall, and rebirth of this thrilling summer pastime. Historical photographs, biographies, and animated films. Includes an interactive virtual tour called Ride the Coaster that explains the physics of motion. http://search.eb.com/coasters/

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34. Inventing Reality: The Politics Of News Media About the book inventing Reality The Politics of News Media by MichaelParenti, Ph.D. inventing Reality The Politics of News Media. http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/mediadeception/InventingRealit

HOME Chronology of Terror Bibliographies Valuable Websites ... SEARCH Russian-Israeli journalist in his article Note: Israel Shamir is a decent, conscientious man. His statement is meant not as an ethnocentric boast, but as a wake-up call. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media From the Michael Parenti Political Archive How much of what the news media tell us is true, and how does it control our view of the world? Now in its second edition, this book was the first comprehensive critique of the news media. Contents Who Controls the News? Objectivity and Government Manipulation The Big Sell Giving Labor the Business The Media Fights the Red Menace Doing the Third World For the New World Order Propaganda Themes Methods of Misrepresentation Culture, Control and Resistance Appendix: A Guide to Alternative Media About the Author Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. His writings have been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Polish, German, Bangla, and Dutch. He is the author of fourteen books (see below). His articles have appeared in

35. Wheatdesign | Julian Barnes Thesis Thesis written by James E. Martin (M.A., University of Arkansas, 2001). http://www.wheatdesign.com/thesis/barnes.php

wheatdesign.com music writing computing life ... design It started off simply enough. I really admired the novels of Julian Barnes and wanted to make them the subject of my master's thesis for an M.A. degree in English. The original idea came to me back in 1995, when my friend James Katowich loaned me a copy of Flaubert's Parrot, certain I'd like it. But due to a misguided (and short lived) move to Philadelphia and a switch from the M.A. program to an M.Ed. program, the thesis got put on the back burner. When you've finished everything but your doctoral disertation, you're said to be All But Disertation (ABD). I don't think there's an equivelent term for being All But Thesis, but perhaps they should invent one. But to make a short introduction shorter, after finishing up my M.Ed., I felt guilty for not ever having finished my M.A., so I finally put my nose to the grind stone, polished it up, and defended it successfully in late April of 2001. For the benefit of people studying Barnes' fiction, I'm posting a PDF version of my thesis here for your pleasure. It's in three parts: The official-looking frontice-matter. Probably only of benefit to the majority of readers in that it contains the table of contents for the thesis. The first page is blank (don't let that throw you).

36. Pete Petit's Home Page Novice inventors are introduced to basic inventing philosophy and methods, including Thomas Edison's Invention Factory concept. http://members.aol.com/petercat/science/index.htm

Main Business Park Consulting Services htmlAdWH('7002182', '234', '60'); The Invention Factory Thomas Edison invented more than the light bulb. He invented a methodology for inventing. In fact, he set up an "Invention Factory", where teams of people having different areas of expertise worked together on problems and visions, cranking out invention after invention. This page is dedicated to the Thomas Edison in all of us. Inventors must manage risk "Invention is 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration." Do not to stand in awe of the invention process. Inspiration comes from "doing your homework." Get familiar with the problem, the physics, the machinery. Do some experiments, calculations, tests. Talk with others who may have insights or expertise. Invention is a process of learning and discovery, an act of creation. That's what makes it fun. Vision inspires invention Necessity may be the Mother of invention, but vision is its Father.

37. 1492 -- Inventing America inventing America. The name America was given to the Western Hemisphereby European writers and mapmakers after Columbus s death. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/d-Inventing.Amer/inventing.amer.html

Inventing America The name America was given to the Western Hemisphere by European writers and mapmakers after Columbus's death. Nothing in their experiences had led the first explorers to realize that they had come into contact with a vast and unrecorded continent, many times the size of Europe. Previously there had been no accounts, or even rumors, of the "unknown" peoples of this "new" continent in European scholarly literature and discussion or in popular chronicles. Mediterranean explorers in search of the spices and riches of the Far East initially believed that they had reached Asia. In part due to this confusion, Europeans conjured up or "invented" images and tales to explain America that would conform to the descriptions of Marco Polo and others. In early allegorical images, "America" was sometimes portrayed as a noble, native woman submissively awaiting European arrival. Ferocious sea animals and exotic creatures filled early maps of the region. Regrettably, we still have incomplete knowledge of the world view and everyday life of the varied peoples of the Americas before European settlement. Spain in America The Gutierrez map depicts what appears to be the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (Charles I of Spain), as the reborn Caesar in his chariot crossing the Atlantic to lay claim to America. Mediterranean explorers had broken open the "gates of Gilbraltar", considered by the ancient Romans to be the westermost limit of their empire. They revealed a "fourth continent" across the Atlantic and a whole new world of potential for the modern empire builders.

38. The Wright Brothers | Inventing A Flying Machine Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright brothers conducted a program of aeronautical researchand experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/fly/index.cfm

Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright brothers conducted a program of aeronautical research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 1903 and a refined, practical flying machine two years later. All successful airplanes since then have incorporated the basic design elements of the 1903 Wright Flyer. The genius of Wilbur and Orville lay not only in the singular act of getting a flying machine into the air, but also in the approach they evolved and employed to create the technology of flight. Their method of evaluating data gathered by testing an aircraft in flight, then refining the design based on those results, remains an essential tool in aerospace research and development. August 1899 October 1900 Fall 1901 December 17, 1903 Interactive Experiments Classroom Activities Sponsors Credits

39. NCIO Homepage: Inventing 101: Table Of Contents Welcome to NCIO s inventing 101 Online Course, a free guide to helpinventors with ideas who don t know where to begin or what to do. http://www.inventionconvention.com/ncio/inventing101/

Online Magazine Online Course Online Booksellers Back to Gateway Click here to SUBSCRIBE FREE! Table of Contents Introduction Beginning Steps for Inventors Different Types of Idea Protection Trademarks Patents Initial Idea Protection - Without A Patent The Log Book The Disclosure Document Program Non-Disclosure (Confidentiality) Agreement Recap-At-A-Glance Marketability: Specifics with Statistics There's Nothing Like It New! Patentability: Does Your Idea Qualify For A Patent? The Patent Search New! How To Do Your Own Preliminary Patent Search New! The USPTO- Seven Step Strategy New! List of Patent and Depository Libraries New! Applying For A Patent New! How to Find A Good Patent Attorney New! List of Patent Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the PTO New! Please note that the Inventing 101 Online Guide is a "work in progress". Be sure to subscribe to receive updates as new material is added. Go to Top Home Americas Inventor Inventing 101 ... FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com National Congress of Inventor Organizations (NCIO) Send correspondence to: P.O. Box 931881

40. Joshua Rifkin: An Interview (from Inside Early Music) Interview from Inside Early Music discussing the basics of early music performance. Includes background information about the artist. http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/rifkin.html

An excerpt from Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers (Oxford University Press, 1997) by Bernard D. Sherman Chapter 20 "Re-Inventing Wheels": Joshua Rifkin on Interpretation and Rhetoric To many early-music enthusiasts, the name Joshua Rifkin brings to mind a single association: the renegade who argues that Bach generally used only one singer on each of his choral lines. But that association obscures the sheer variety of Rifkin's career. His work as conductor, harpsichordist, and pianist has taken him from Busnoys and Josquin through Mozart and Haydn to Stravinsky, Weill, and more recent composers. It has also included a healthy dose of Scott Joplin, whose revival in popularity began with Rifkin's recordings in the early 1970s. Rifkin has appeared as guest conductor and keyboard soloist with many leading modern orchestras, such as the English Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco and St. Louis Symphonies. Along the way, he has found time to record his spoof The Baroque Beatles Book and some lovely instrumental arrangements for Judy Collins Rifkin studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and theory with Milton Babbitt at Princeton. He is also a musicologist, who has specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music, particularly Josquin and Bach. His research on the B Minor Mass has produced several coups, including his deduction, since proved correct, that the Credo chorus was originally written in a different key than the familiar one. His revisionist work on the dates of the

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