Thomas Crapper Day
Thomas Crapper, an accomplished plumber and businessman from London who has erroneously been called the inventor of the flush toilet, died on January 27, 1910.
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Flare-O-Flame
This vintage ad, sent by California Invention Center Executive Director Larry Udell, is a hot one indeed. After all, who doesn’t want a childish tailpipe attachment for racecar wannabes? And it’s a great way to meet many of your curious local police officers.
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Faith By Design
Kerri King says her wildly popular Bible-themed company was part of a bigger plan
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Go Get IP Aware
The sixth annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit® (IPAS 2023), “Bridges, Not Barricades,” will be May 2 in Boston, in conjunction with Northeastern University’s Center for Research Innovation and the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding.
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Beware Your ‘Baby Love’
“How ugly is your baby?” No one ever asks a new parent this question—just as no one ever asks an inventor this about his or her new “baby.”
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IP Literacy: Smart.
The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property is expanding its support of infusing IP education into a broad range of educational curricula.
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Inventor Archives: My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “My Fair Lady” was copyright registered in 1957, a year after its launch on Broadway.
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Super Forever
Made by accident, the Super Ball was an unlikely cultural phenomenon in the 1960s.
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