Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A mousetrap car is a small vehicle whose only source of motive power is a mousetrap. Variations include the use of multiple traps, or very big rat traps, for added power. Mousetrap cars are often used in physics or other physical science classes to help students build problem-solving skills, develop spatial awareness, learn to budget time, and ...
The spring-loaded mousetrap was first patented by William C. Hooker of Abingdon, Illinois, who received US patent 528671 for his design in 1894. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A British inventor, James Henry Atkinson , patented a similar trap called the "Little Nipper" in 1898, including variations that had a weight-activated treadle as the trip.
Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
The United States Patent Office has issued more than 4,400 mousetrap patents. [3] The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design. [4]
Head of design at General Motors 1958–1977; innovations in automotive design William Leroy Mitchell [ 1 ] (July 2, 1912 – September 12, 1988) was an American automobile designer . Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America before being recruited by Harley ...
The 2003 Bertone Birusa concept car on display at the Geneva Motor Show. In the background are some concept sketches. Draft of OScar design proposal A futuristic original sketch for the Ferrari Modulo 512-S concept car by Paul Martin in 1967. There are already many features of the final product, including the reduced height, wheels coved for ...
This geometric drawing toy was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965. The trippy shapes made it the perfect toy for the swinging '60s. BUY NOW
James Henry Atkinson (c. 1849–1942) was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. [1] He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, [2] [3] but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.