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Title: How to make inventions; or, Inventing as a science and an art
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Thompson, Edward P
Subjects: Inventions
Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed as an electricgame or toy. Make a list of games and discover the commonprinciple. In the above it is the application of the forces ofnature. Such a list often suggests a result new as far as thestudent is concerned. The following list may suggest anotherprinciple : Ball and bat. Billiards, Foot Ball, Croquet, BattleDoor and Shuttle Cock, and Pigs in Clover. The principle isthat of the use of balls. The student should extend this list asfar as his knowledge permits and the inventive power if suffici-ently strong in the particular investigator will suggest to itselfsome original result with balls. The chapter on SuggestiveIdeas may assist in connection with toys. For example thesuggestion automatic will apply here. Automatic toys areendless in number and more are to follow. Make a list of allautomatic toys you can remember and the inventive power willact in suggesting the principle. It will be found that the prin-ciple is that of analogy with, or copying from, nature or humanactions.
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170 Similarly, exercise the inventive power in the lines of otherindustries. 33. An arc lamp is shown in the accompanying cut. Withouta verbal description, the exercise of the inventive power may beobtained by conjecturing the functions of the parts and theoperation of the whole device. CHAPTER XXIV. Conclusion. Generation of the Inventive Power. Reason and Knowledge.—The most general applicable rulededucible from the contents of this book, is to reason upon factsfor the purpose of solving a particular problem or of arrivingat results not sought. Out of ten people meeting with adifficulty only a small per cent, will apply logical reasoning andexperiment to overcome it. It is the habit and inclination ofmost people to consider difficulties as inevitable. If all wouldthink and reason and thus try to overcome, invention would pro-gress much more rapidly. Let every one who wishes to trainhimself to be an inventor consider difficulties as an opportunityand force himself into the habit of

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