Make: Inventing a Better Mousetrap Format:Digital Fortunately for educators

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Make: Inventing a Better Mousetrap Format:Digital Fortunately for educatorsOn April 10, 1790, president George Washington signed a patent bill that recognized the right of an inventor to profit from his or her invention. There was a caveat: In order to receive a patent, the inventor first had to submit a small reproduction of the invention in question. For the next 90 years, inventors dutifully and ingeniously created small scale replicas of their larger vision, many of which were displayed for the public to admire. In 1880,