How do you invent something from an idea?
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How do you invent something from an idea?
- Step 1: Believe in yourself.
- Step 2: Find a problem worth solving.
- Step 3: Do basic market research (before investing money)
- Step 4: Build a prototype (and test your idea)
- Step 5: Protect your idea.
- Step 6: Manufacture or license your idea (or, “inventor for royalties” versus “entrepreneurial inventor”)
How are things invented?
Ideas for an invention may be developed on paper or on a computer, by writing or drawing, by trial and error, by making models, by experimenting, by testing and/or by making the invention in its whole form. Brainstorming also can spark new ideas for an invention.
What do you think is the greatest invention?
The Greatest Inventions In The Past 1000 Years
Invention | Notes | |
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1 | Printing Press | allowed literacy to greatly expand |
2 | Electric Light | powered countless social changes |
3 | Automobile | increased personal mobility and freedom |
4 | Telephone | spread communication across wide areas |
How do you think like an inventor?
Think Like an Inventor
- Be curious. Most inventors are creative people with a wide range of interests.
- Let creativity flow. Help your child develop creative fluency and flexible thinking.
- Make mistakes.
- Never stop learning.
How do you become an inventor?
How to become an inventor
- Choose an industry. As an aspiring inventor, you may find it helpful to focus on developing products within one industry.
- Learn about the business of inventing.
- Develop your ideas.
- Build a prototype.
- File for a patent.
- Build and sell your invention.
- Continue generating new ideas.
What invented first?
Date | Invention or discovery |
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Prehistory | |
3500– 5000 BCE | Glass is made by people for the first time. |
3500 BCE | Humans invent the wheel. |
3000 BCE | First written languages are developed by the Sumerian people of southern Mesopotamia (part of modern Iraq). |