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Animals That Have Inspired Inventions

How cats' eyes and cheetahs' legs led inventors to create road safety reflectors and better prosthetic limbs.

Ancient Inventions in Use Today

Ancient inventions like the Archimedes screw, cement, and knives are still widely used in modern life today.

Accounting Practices

Most businesses use standard accounting practices and software to track income, expenses and VAT for tax returns and Companies House filings.

Accidental Inventions

Some of history's most useful inventions started with accidents, but only when inventors stayed curious and paid close attention.

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Time Travel: An Inventor’s Fantasy?

Scientists have seriously considered whether time travel could work according to physics, even designing theoretical machines to make it possible.

Accidental Inventions

Some of history's most useful inventions started with accidents, but only when inventors stayed curious and paid close attention.

Fashion Inventions That Failed

Some fashion designers created bizarre inventions like armor jeans and cleaning slippers that never caught on with the public.

Five Business Strategies for Your Invention

Help your invention become a real business by mastering communication, knowing your customers, and applying strategic thinking to turn ideas into products.

Inventing Board Games

Creating a board game takes more than a good idea, you need to test it, manufacture it, and figure out how to sell it.

Inventing Eco-friendly Devices

Inventors are creating eco-friendly devices that cut pollution and replace harmful equipment with cleaner alternatives.

Inventing Medical Devices

Doctors, scientists and patients invent medical devices to improve patient care, though the path from idea to hospital use involves prototypes and trials.

Grim Inventions: Devices for Capital Punishment

How inventors created execution devices like the electric chair, designed to be more humane alternatives to hanging.

The Top Ten Female Inventors

Ten women inventors whose discoveries changed how we see, clean, and live, from the laser cataract probe to disposable nappies.

Finding a Manufacturer

Work out the real costs and tradeoffs when choosing where to manufacture your invention, whether in the UK or abroad.

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