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No one ever found such a use, unless you include the desire to make a quick and rubbery copy of your favorite Sunday comic. In any case, the scientists who discovered the initial putty imagine revolutionary uses for the new rubber substitute. Everyone “steals” from everyone else, except that it is not stealing to learn from others, adapt, improve, remix. This is why the lawsuits by Apple against Samsung (among a million other wasteful patent lawsuits) are so pointless. To freeze one stage and isolate one inventor with a government monopoly grant of privilege (the patent) is wholly artificial and injurious to the process of discovery. This applies not only to products, but also to ideas.

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Researchers in the history of invention have found that innovations occur on the margin and simultaneously over large parts of the world, a bit of improvement here and there, all stemming from trial and error and the targeted purpose of the product. 1: The legend of the lone inventor in his lab is a myth.

Patents settle nothing: the bureaucrats approving those items mix things up constantly, and much depends on how the lawyers write them.

In fact, if you look at the history of just about anything from the cotton gin to the telephone to flight itself, you find a raging dispute over who was first. It turns out that this is not unusual in human history. More likely, it is a case of simultaneous invention. It appears that James Wright, who was a researcher at General Electric, also has a claim and a patent dated from 1944 to prove it. But the claim is so uncertain that Warrick’s New York Times obituary even hedged. Warrick, who died in 1992, always claimed that he and a colleague at Dow Corning, Rob Roy McGregor, invented it in 1943. Who invented it? There are several competitors for the title, and at least two patents. The story reinforces the point of Pete Earle and Sean Smith: “innovation rarely (and despite all appearances) follows a pre-ordained path, but rather it progresses in fits and starts, inevitably and invariably bending to the feedback and the will of the marketplace.” How is it that this seemingly ridiculous stuff could become a product that links the generations?Ī closer look reveals that you can learn so much about the way the world works just by looking at the history of this pliable plaything. I have an early memory of getting in big trouble for sticking some on a church pew. It’s about another gloriously viscoelastic substance: Silly Putty. Instead, this melting might make very little difference at all.īut this article isn’t about ice caps. This means that by century’s end, Boston might not be underwater. The same substance if pulled quickly snaps and breaks.Īs part of continuing studies of what happens if Antarctica melts, scientists have begun to test the possibility that polar ice caps are more viscoelastic than they previously believed. It is a substance that seems solid but slowly drips into a puddle over time. Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified.Here’s the word of the day: viscoelastic. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference.

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On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code 'PKGCMP' in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time.

Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as 'APH1AB'). A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A 'package' is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price.

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