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Inventive Thinking Lesson Plans
Lesson plans and activities for teaching inventive thinking - adaptable for grades K-12
 
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Appendix

1. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

2. Copy of the first U.S. patent issued and signed by George Washington in 1790.

3. Copies of selected patents granted to inventors who changed the world:

* Abraham Lincoln manner of bouying vessels
* Alexander Graham Bell. telegraphy
* Auguste Bartholdi statue [of liberty]
* Thomas Alva Edison electric lamp
* Lewis Howard Latimer electric lamp
* Granville T. Woods electric railway
* Orville and Wilbur Wright flying machine
* Harry Houdini diver's suit
* Garrett A. Morgan traffic signal
* George Washington Carver paint and stain and process...
* H. F. Bosenberg climbing or trailing rose
* An Wang pulse transfer controlling devices
* Phillip J. Stevens variable area nozzle
* Ysidro M. Martinez knee implant prosthesis
* Philip Leder transgenic non-human mammals

4. More than a toy. selected toy patents.

5. Rumor has it... that a patent office official resigned because "everything that can be invented has been invented."

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