Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Man is a shrewd inventor and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
Thomas Edison devoted ten years and all of his money to developing the nickel alkaline storage battery at a time when he was almost penniless. Through that period of time his record and film production company was supporting the storage battery effort. Then one night the terrifying cry of Fire! echoed through the film plant. Spontaneous combustion had ignited some chemicals. Within moments all of the packaging compounds celluloid for records film and other flammable goods had gone up in flames. Fire companies from eight towns arrived but the heat was so intense and the water pressure so low that the fire hoses had no effect. Edison was sixty-seven years old – no age to begin anew. His daughter was frantic wondering if he was safe if his spirit was broken how he would handle such a crisis at his age. She saw him running toward her. He spoke first. He said Wheres your mother? Go get her. Tell her to get her friends. Theyll never see another fire like this as long as they live. At five-thirty the next morning with the fire barely under control he called his employees together and announced Were rebuilding. One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area another to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then almost as an afterthought Edison added Oh by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money? Virtually everything we now recognize as a Thomas Edison contribution to our lives came after that great disaster.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Invention strictly speaking is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented human liberty.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
I just invent then wait until man comes around to needing what Ive invented.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
None of my inventions came by accidentthey came by work.
I invent nothing I rediscover.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use the less material you need.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
And yet the true creator is necessity which is the mother of invention.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
INVENTOR n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Man is a shrewd inventor and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
Necessity the mother of invention.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Thomas Edison devoted ten years and all of his money to developing the nickel alkaline storage battery at a time when he was almost penniless. Through that period of time his record and film production company was supporting the storage battery effort. Then one night the terrifying cry of Fire! echoed through the film plant. Spontaneous combustion had ignited some chemicals. Within moments all of the packaging compounds celluloid for records film and other flammable goods had gone up in flames. Fire companies from eight towns arrived but the heat was so intense and the water pressure so low that the fire hoses had no effect. Edison was sixty-seven years old – no age to begin anew. His daughter was frantic wondering if he was safe if his spirit was broken how he would handle such a crisis at his age. She saw him running toward her. He spoke first. He said Wheres your mother? Go get her. Tell her to get her friends. Theyll never see another fire like this as long as they live. At five-thirty the next morning with the fire barely under control he called his employees together and announced Were rebuilding. One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area another to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then almost as an afterthought Edison added Oh by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money? Virtually everything we now recognize as a Thomas Edison contribution to our lives came after that great disaster.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Necessity who is the mother of invention.
Invention strictly speaking is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented human liberty.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth.
Necessity mother of invention.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.