Tag Archives: inventing

SF Inventors

Posted on May 31, 2018 by jlredford

Unlike other groups that I’ve written about (Beautiful Inventors, Political Inventors, Criminal Inventors and Movie Inventors), science fiction authors are known for their interest in technology.   You would think, then, that a lot of them would have made real-life contributions, … Continue reading →

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Who Are the Most Inventive People?

Posted on March 12, 2015 by jlredford

In What Are the Most Inventive Countries, States, and Cities, I described how the inventors listed on US patents granted in 2014 were distributed geographically.  The data came from Google XML files here, with a pile of Perl post-processing.  Let’s … Continue reading →

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What Are the Most Inventive Countries, States, and Cities?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by jlredford

That is, in what places do the most inventors live?   Let’s define an inventor as someone who gets their name on a patent.   Let’s restrict it further to names on US patents, since the US system is much the largest … Continue reading →

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Criminal Inventors

Posted on December 30, 2013 by jlredford

So the “Breaking Bad” TV series has ended, and with it the career of the chemist and criminal mastermind Walter White.   It was nice in a macabre way to see a technical person portrayed as dangerous and alluring, rather than … Continue reading →

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Political Inventors

Posted on February 28, 2012 by jlredford

There’s a great deal of talk in the political world these days about improving STEM education – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.   I’m not sure how Technology is different from Engineering, but it does improve the acronym.    The US apparently … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Inventors

Posted on November 23, 2011 by jlredford

So I see that Richard Rhodes is coming out with a new book about Hedy Lamarr and the invention of spread spectrum communications: Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.  … Continue reading →

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