Comments on: 10 Really Great American Patents

By: ASF

ASF — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:27:37 +0000

The cotton gin did nothing but add to slavery. And yes, it make slave owners rich

By: carlos

carlos — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:26:53 +0000

Zenith Transoceanic Radio. One of the few radios capable to attain foreign broadcast during Franco’s dictatorship in Spain.
Unfortunately, by then I had no money to buy one and today it seems ipossible to get.

By: JRowe

JRowe — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:49:57 +0000

I would say the Tenth invention should be portable batteries. We just can’t prosper in life without them.

By: HumbertHumbert

HumbertHumbert — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:05:44 +0000

The almighty fleshlight!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:33:40 +0000

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5676977.PN.&OS=PN/5676977&RS=PN/5676977
That patent maybe, I think it might be a tiny bit important

By: condolingas rice

condolingas rice — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:48:25 +0000

from 1794 to 1837, there were 60 patents between those two, then by 1851, 13 years later, we had over 8000 patents, 1876, 174000 patents. seeing these numbers increase exponentially in the decreasing time spans is amazing

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:31:15 +0000

Silicon Transistor*

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:26:33 +0000

Silicon Semi-conductor, most influential invention in the past century

By: guest

guest — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:22:45 +0000

What about Duct Tape? You can make boats,wallets, bridges, and other things out of it.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:44:52 +0000

alternating current by tesla changed the way we all lived