adulting

child

classroom

clock

Coca-Cola

corn dog

door

dry erase board

earphones

evolution

experiment

experimentation

fish

fork

Gen Z

getting high

glue

horse

hybridity

ice cream

invention

inventor

listening

marker

parenting

reinventing the wheel

research

restaurant

science

shovel

straw

time

toilet

transportation

trivia

wheel

wheelbarrow

Begin As Questions

Escape Gravity

Make Good Descendants

Reward Boldness

Reward Discontinuity

Reward Improvisation

Reward Secrecy

Separate Eras

 requires a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

is largely composed of the ideas of other people who never bothered to develop them.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them. Thomas A. Edison

is a thing requiring nothing more than a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison

is a lot like surfing in that one has to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

is an attitude of never picking up an item without thinking of how to improve it in terms of the service it might give others.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem. Thomas A. Edison

is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

bifocals

gadget

incandescent light bulb

lightning rod

Alexandria, Hero of

Ando, Momofuku

Babbage, Charles

Beauchamp, George

Bell, Alexander G.

Berners-Lee, Tim

Braille, Louis

Carrier, Willis

Colt, Samuel

Cossman, E. Joseph

Drebbel, Cornelius

Eastman, George

Edison, Thomas

Edison, Thomas Alva

Francis, Joseph

Franklin

Franklin, Ben

Franklin, Benjamin

Fuller, Buckminster

Goddard, Robert

Gutenberg, Johannes

Heng, Zhang

Jarvik, Robert

Kettering, Charles

Kettering, Charles F.

Kuo, Shen

Kurzweil, Ray

Lamarr, Hedy

Land, Edwin

Nobel, Alfred

Reichelt, Franz

Spencer, Percy

Tesla, Nikola

Tupper, Earl

Whitney, Eli

Wright, Orville

Wright, Wilbur

pioneer

WTF Origins

progress

ballpoint pen

crank

omni-interaccommodative

development

introduction

newness

Archimedes

Cabiri

combinatory play

conception

constraints are such mastery

creative imagination

creative indexicality

creativeness

Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory)

Earl of Sandwich

electric age

engineering

geek

memory of imagination

Menlo Park

Monticello

National Academy of Engineering

paralogy

petaphysics

R&D | research and development

technics

work of the imagination

Wright brothers

discovery

invented tradition

Linton's axe

paradigmatic poverty

pure recollection

three laws of imitation

word origins

not invented here

California Roll

coinage

Concoction

frequency-hopping spread spectrum

General Electric

Georgia Tech

inventiveness

kinetoscope

logodaedalus

mechanical engineer

Missy Elliott

non-philosophy

Re-Novial (language)

Willy Wonka

World's Fair

writing fiction

imagination

literature

Alexander Graham Bell

Chleweyish (language)

creative synthesis

creolization

Dyson

Eklektu (language)

Elvish (language)

ephemeralization

fabulation

Gabwe (language)

general technology

George Forman

Howard Hughes

inner resonance

innovator

invention of culture

Joseph Fourier

laser

leonard da vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

minor science

Nadsat (language)

neologism

Old Albic (language)

paper clip

patent office

Phineas and Ferb

pioneering

Plankton (spongebob)

productive power

Rumford Medal

Satoshi Nakamoto

science fiction

self-creation

simultaneous discovery

steamboat

Steve Wozniak

Stewie Griffin

stimulus diffusion

surfiction

Talossan (language)

telegraph

transistor

Verdurian (language)

invention, n.All

invention