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If the mouse attempts to take the bait, the coin is displaced and the glass traps the mouse. [14] Another method of live trapping, the bucket trap , is to make a half-oval shaped tunnel with a toilet paper roll, put bait on one end of the roll, place the roll on a counter or table with the baited end sticking out over the edge, and put a deep ...
Mouse Trap is a platform game written by Dave Mann (using the pseudonym Chris Robson) and published by Tynesoft in 1986 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers. [1] One year later the game was released for the Atari 8-bit computers , [ 2 ] Atari ST , Amiga , and Commodore 64 .
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]
Mouse Trap (originally Mouse Trap Game) is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players. It is one of the first mass-produced three-dimensional board games. [1] [2] Players at first cooperate to build a working mouse trap in the style of a Rube Goldberg machine.
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.
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Making a speed mouse trap car involves extracting the most energy you can from the mousetrap spring in a short distance. The lever arm needs to be shorter than the distance car's because the shorter the arm is, the quicker the spring will snap, and thus more torque gets extracted from the spring.
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.