Whenever somebody gets up in front of a room full of people and says that they had invented something, I check to see if that’s really true. All too often, I discover that somebody had invented the same thing before that person “invented” it.<\/p>\n
This happens so often that I am tempted to organize a seminar on this odd quirk in invention timelines. In my seminar, I would map out the actual sequence of events that led to various inventions, which often significantly differs from the official sequence.<\/p>\n
In most cases, I think people would be surprised to find out who really invented something first. But I also quite sure that they would be entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Whenever somebody gets up in front of a room full of people and says that they had invented something, I check to see if that’s really true. All too often, I discover that somebody had invented the same thing before that person “invented” it. This happens so often that I am tempted to organize a … Continue reading “Who invented it first?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28626,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625\/revisions\/28626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}