Does inventing a baby count?

 

No, they were invented before you were born

 

Excuses as to why they haven't finished cleaning the garage?

 

A good friend of mine had a girlfriend who's 4th or 5th grandfather invented Llen wrenches (I have never been able to prove or disprove this)

 

Curse words. None patented, none have made any money but I am sure that many were stolen for use in the movie "A Christmas Story"....specifically when the furnace broke.

I dont really know that much about my family history further back than my grandparents. Then again, my family tree might be wreath so I am afraid to inquire.....

 

Curse words. None patented, none have made any money but I am sure that many were stolen for use in the movie "A Christmas Story"....specifically when the furnace broke.

I dont really know that much about my family history further back than my grandparents. Then again, my family tree might be wreath so I am afraid to inquire.....

Yeah, my three sisters.

Continously inventing new ways to be a major pain in the azz. :sad:

True classics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.............

 

My family was one of the first to invent shocks for automobiles. It was around 1914 when they first put a few on some local delivery trucks, they installed them free for one year and then went back to each of the 15 companys and got written comments on how the "Parker" mechanical shock improved the business. They made a lot of cash throught the late teens and 20's untill Monore came out with the gas shock in the early 30's. I still have all the original paper work, even the original legal mechanical drawings, pamflets, and the legal paper work with all the patent numbers and stuff. I even have all of the 15 reviews from the local Seattle companys telling how the shock saved them huge amounts of money from not breaking leaf springs anymore in 1915! It's cool stuff.

 

My brother-in-laws grandfather invented Tap Magic. It's a cutting fluid used in most machining places.

 

Good product! We use that stuff by the gallons.

 

Yeah, my three sisters.

Continously inventing new ways to be a major pain in the azz. :sad:

 

Yeah, my three sisters.

Continously inventing new ways to be a major pain in the azz. :sad:

Bill, I also have 3 sisters and they are all pains in my aZZ. Oh the stories I could tell!
I know how you feel.
Ron

 

When i was growing up, my kid brother, Pnugene, invented the worlds foulest smelling bathroom......i used to crawl out in the yard on all fours and throw up, just to cover up the stench...my dad used to accuse him of gutting deer in there...was and still is horrible.....don't even like to think about it...turns my stomach even now.......................

 

We've got a few inventors in the tree...

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goble/homepage/inventions/inventor.htm

 

OK, here's what I have; a handwritten notebook with formulas and logs. He had a machinery list and tool list. There's a typed sheet for formula # 411, a pic, and a newspaper section.

on the back, it reads "A Connecticut sign, Best Regards, Joe & Fritz" dated 6/24/37

and this paper section:

Tough to read, but in essence, Clinton O'Dell heard about some medical problems a young man had and sent a little money. That man was greatly moved and declared he would get better and work for O'Dell for free. The young man got better and kept his word. He walked in, declared he was going to work for free, and shortly after produced batch no 1 of Burma Shave. His name was Carl Noren. I believe he was my grandma's cousin.

 

Any of you that have fished Salmon may have heard of the wonder spoon. My grandfather claimed it was his spoon. They used to make all there own spoons for commercial fishing by carving the shape into a block of wood. They would then hammer the spoon out in the block of wood. He said they his design was stolen by a man named Jimmy Wonder who made it and sold it commercially

 

Big Smith Overalls. Its where I and family go everyyear up to Dora,Missouri. Its not in the family anymore though. cool looking mill and it had a turbine that powered the sewing machines.

Hodgson Mill is located 14 miles northeast of Gainesville on Highway 181 at the Sycamore access on Bryant Creek. The first mill at this location was built by William Holman in 1861 and was located about 200 yards downstream from the present site on the spring branch. In 1884, Alva Hodgson bought the mill property from his father-in-law, Manuel Smith. He the built the mill on its present location over a spring that is reported to produce 28,900,000 gallons of water a day, which has a constant temperature of 58 degrees year round.

Hank and Jean Macler purchased the historic old mill and surrounding property in 2000. Concentrating their efforts on securing the structure, repairing broken, deteriorating elements and and refurbishing the exterior, the Maclers hired a crew of Amish craftsmen to completely rebuild the mill's post-and-beam timber frame, and repaint the old, weathered boards.

While the mill no longer grinds wheat and corn, efforts are currently underway to repair and re-install the mill turbine. Inside the old mill, little has changed.

A steel bridge has been installed over the spring branch as part of the ongoing preservation of the mill and grounds.

The mill is now a popular tourist destination, offering tours to the public from May 15 through October. The owners have collected memorabilia, with oral and written histories of the mill. The mill grounds can be reserved for one-day reunions or weddings.

Hodgson Mill

There are bags of flour in grocery stores across the nation that show a picture of this mill on their cover. The flour used to be ground at Hodgson Mill, but now is ground at a modern factory in Gainesville. Hodgson Mill sits right over the 15th largest spring in Missouri. From the mill, the spring branch flows 600 feet into Bryant Creek. Alva Hodgson built it in 1897 to grind flour from wheat and corn. Ten years later, Hodgson sold the mill to his brother and built Dawt Mill, on the North Fork River.

A sawmill and cotton gin also stood in the valley. A general store and post office completed the little community, still called Sycamore today. Long before there were power lines, electricity made on site from water power gave the mill and store electric lights. The power plant stands idle today, but is said to still be in working order. Electric industrial sewing machines in the store building were used to make Big Smith overalls.

 

My daughter invented a new magic trick. Vanishing money.Watch it disappear before your very eyes.:sad:

 

My wifes great great grandfather I believe it was (don't recall the exact number of greats) is the guy that invented thousand island salad dressing. Jon Boldt was his name and he lived in thoyusand islands New York and built Boldt Castle there. My wife is a Boldt and her father is also John Boldt and named after the guy.

Jeff

 

My grandfather and father both invented a lot of tooling that has become standard in the pattern making business. The patents have all run out on them now.:sad:

 

One of my relatives was part of a group that invented Old Smoothie Root Beer. It is or was predominently available in Wisconsin.

 

My dad was on the team, in Naval Intelligence, that developed RADAR during WWII. He worked out of Potomac, MD with the Brits.

 

Jeff,

Boldt Castle is really a cool place. It is being restored, a room at a time, to supposedly the way it "might" have looked had it been finished. It's been a few yrs. since my wife and I have been up there...time to go back and see the progress. Gotta love that entire area, esp. in the summer! Pretty desolate in the winter.

Duke

 

I am on a patent. Nothing comercial though. Item developed at work and I think there were like 6 of us on the patent. Thought it was a big deal at first. Got a small award for it but nothing to really show for it except my name on some list somewhere inthe patent office.:boring:

 

My grandfather was a very sharp man who invented several things and acquired several patents. Among his inventions were, metric time, the first singleboard computer, and the electronic gas pump. You would think the electronic gas pump would have made him rich however he agree to sell the idea rather than patent it. The person he sold it to skipped town and never paid a cent. Sounds fishy I know but he really did invent it. Another neat invention of his was an electronic ignition for a car(in the 1960s) but his rotor design was quite different than what you see nowadays.

 

Your Grandfather created the MMD-1?
Righteous!!

Big D

 

Tap magic is good stuff.

 

My best friend's dad invented the auto shut-off gas nozzle used in just about every gas station in the country. Had the patent for quite a number of years. I understand he had the patent for several things until he passed away 3 years ago.

 

My family has always talked about some trailer hitch that a great uncle invented but the idea was stolen from him.

 

I'm currently in the process of obtaining a patent.. it's going to take 5 frickin years to get it though

That said I need a good cad designer to design my prototype.. If you are good with cad hit me up

 

My cousin invents some pulp stuff for pulp mills.
20050133643 - Process for increasing the refiner production rate and/or decreasing the specific energy of pulping wood.

32. (2009/073145) Method and apparatus for measuring deposition of particulate contaminants in pulp and paper slurries.