Brainstorms and Mindfarts
the best and brightest, dumbest and dimmest inventions in american history
$55.52
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2021
Summary
Brainstorms and Mindfarts: 100 Wild Inventions
The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But with over 500,000 applications now being filed annually, fewer than half of these applicants will be granted patents and far fewer still will realize commercial success. Some are flawed by mistakes or missing details, others too ridiculous to take seriously, still others simply ahead of their…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780762472444 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0762472448 |
| Author: | Tom Connor, Jim Downey |
| Publisher: | Running Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Running Press Adult |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 192mm x 142mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Tom Connor
Connor & Downey are the co-authors and -producers of a dozen and a half books, as well as the authors of the national best-selling parodies Is Martha Stuart Living?, Martha Stuart’s Better Than You at Entertaining, and The Smyth ‘n Hawk’em Gardening Catalog. Their projects range from humor and satire to pop culture, politics, design, and style. Jim Downey works as a marketing copywriter and satirist while Tom Connor is the head of the literary agency Tom Connor & Associates.
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