"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." Charles Kettering Directions: Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. This hunts takes you to the web site with the answer, rather than right to the page. Once you dig up the answer, use the Back Arrow/Button of your browser to return to this hunt page.
2. Just the other day you had a great idea for an invention. Which agency of the government should you contact to protect your ownership of the idea? What is the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention called? What is a trademark? TAI - You recognize trademarks everywhere. Name a trademark not listed in the article. Don't complain, Just do it!
5. What happened that got Ole Evinrude thinking about inventing a gas engine for boats?
6. What did James T. Russell invent? Use Search to find him. You may use Wikipedia, also.
7. Select a Mother of Invention. Write 3 facts about her or her invention. (This is a multipage web site. Follow the links at the bottom of each page to view pages on women inventors.)
8. Why did Thomas Jefferson find hispolygraph machine so very handy?
Use your online research skills to learn - 10. George Washington Carver said, "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." Who was he and what were a few of his accomplishments?
11. Plato said it, "...................... is the mother of invention" Fill in the blank. Rule of search: If you enter the words mother of invention in the search box, you will get: all the quotes with the word "mother" AND all the quotes with the word "of" AND all the quotes with the word "invention". UGH! A smart internet searcher: Puts the phrase inside quotation marks to match all the words together. Enter- "mother of invention"