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THE MANUAL INVENTIONS INDEX IIIII
EUREKA MOMENTS
The numbers behind these game-changers
15
9,237
Bill Gates' age when he invented
a traffic-cone system in Seattle
Number of patents per year from San
Jose area (home of Google and
Stanford University)
48
1
Delay in years between invention
of can and can opener
2,800
Number of inventions, out of 4,000 in
the year 2000, that came from within a
35-mile radius of Birmingham
The first vending machine was
invented in the 1st century AD
by Hero of Alexandria
1,093
50%
Amount of patents filed by
Thomas Edison
Half of all inventions
happen by accident
Inspiration
ISSUE
$47.5m
Amount Bette Nesmith sold
Liquid Paper (aka the US
Tipp-Ex) to Gillette in 1979
16
1618
Year of first patent in UK - by
map makers Aaron Rathbone
and Roger Burges
60%
Percentage of those who
start small businesses aged
between 40 to 60
303
Where the richest UK inventor,
James Dyson, ranked on the
Forbes Billionaires 2019 list
1 in 8
Number of inventors globally
who are female
COMPILED BY Georgia Lockstone and James Gill SOURCES arstechnica.com,
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history.com, cnbc.com, smallbizgenius.net, forbes.com, bbc.co.uk
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