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Company was created by inventor Louis Dischler to patent products. Items include shoelace treatments, safety razors, syringes, and gear boxes.

Showcases inventions and products from inventors around the world. Includes a directory of services offered to inventors.

Companion site to this book, subtitled "From the Microwave to the Mouse," features profiles of several inventors. Play games to discover connections between technologies.

Guide provides inventors with articles and links to help them navigate patents, prototypes, design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing.

Lemelson-MIT Prize Program presents a weekly biographical sketch of a US inventor. Have a look and peruse the archives.

Encyclopedia article attempts to define the process of inventing and details some of the most important inventions that have been made.

Play the Invention Game to learn about "wild and wacky" inventions, and find links to related Web sites and books.

Check out actual patent applications for unusual inventions and amusing devices. With descriptions, drawings and US patent numbers.

Smith College hosts this collection of tools invented by ancient civilizations. Find pictures of many objects, or learn how to visit the museum.

Humorous look at inventions and absurd patents, including the portable pet potty, floating furniture, skin stencil and tricycle lawnmower.

Monthly feature explores unusual patents like this month's initiation apparatus and last month's multiplex musical instrument.