In 1903, Mary Anderson and a friend were driving to New York. It was raining heavily and they had to open the windows to their car and put their heads out to see better. Suddenly Mary had an idea.
In 1869, Thomas Adams was trying to produce rubber out of the juice he got from Mexican sapodilla trees. He wanted to produce toys, rain boots and bicycle tyres. The experiment didn’t work. While he was thinking about this, he took a piece of the rubber he was working with and put it in his mouth.
In 1897, British inventor James Henry Atkinson was looking at the family’s supply of potatoes, which they kept in a room under their house. He noticed that mice had eaten some of the potatoes so he invented something that he called ‘Little Nipper’ to stop them.
In 1886, Josephine Cochran was standing in her kitchen in lllinios, USA. The family lunch was finished. There was a mountain of dishes in front of Mrs Cochran and she got quite angry, thinking that she had to do this job every day. ‘If nobody else is going to invent a machine for this, I’ll do it myself,’ she thought.
In the early years of the eighteenth century, in the middle of the summer, an unknown Dutchman was looking at one of the many canals in Holland. He was thinking that he often travelled along the frozen canals on ice skates in the winter. He got a little impatient. ‘I don’t want to wait for winter!’ he thought.
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