An unusual cook stove, that looked more like the sort of thing provincial New England were inventors were developing in the 1830s, i.e. a throwback and evolutionary dead-end.

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LETTERS PATENT to James Kent Griffin, of the Village of Waterdown, in the County of Halton, for the Invention of "Several Important Improvements In Cooking Stoves, And In The Method Of Applying And Using Heat For Cooking Purposes." Toronto, 13th March, 1851.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION.

Firstly, there is a rising and falling grate worked by levers under the hearth, by which the size of the fire place may be altered at pleasure, whether the fire is burning or not. Secondly, there is an ash grate immediately under the fire, by means of which the ashes are at once lifted into a moveable ash pan and the grate cleaned at pleasure. Thirdly, the oven is surrounded on all sides by fire. Fourthly, the oven can be cleaned directly into the ash pan. Fifthly, by means of a water gate to lie on the bottom of the oven, steam is diffused through it, and the heat more completely equalized. Sixthly, the heat is regulated by means of the expansion of a brass rod pressing an iron one against a compound lever which opens a damper. Seventhly, the oven is on a new plan and is a steam one—and eighthly, the front doors are provided with circular dampers so arranged us to allow the draft to be altered at any time.

Patent Office of Canada, _Patents of Canada, Vol. 2: from 1849 to 1855_ (Toronto: Lovell & Gibson, 1865), p. 312:

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This proud Taiwanese inventor also offers an easily height-adjustable handle-post. Always good to have some competition.

Full show report here.

O Prêmio Inventores Unicamp surgiu no ano de 2004 e é uma cerimônia realizada pela Reitoria da Unicamp e pela Agência de Inovação Inova Unicamp com o intuito de homenagear os pesquisadores da Unicamp (docentes e funcionários) envolvidos em atividades de proteção e transferência de tecnologia e, com isso, promover o estímulo à inovação junto à comunidade acadêmica.

this clipping was in really bad shape, I've ordered a better copy from the archives -- check back later

Los secretos de la ciencia, Centro Comercial Berceo

He's going to invent something awesome!

B & F were playing with their Little Bits (easy to use electronics with small modules which join together using magnets). This is their light-activated ear cleaner featuring a cotton bud fixed to a motor