Challenging Today's Innovators Inspiring Innovation in America The mission of the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) is to recognize inventors and invention, promote creativity and advance the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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'BUILD YOUR OWN TELEVISION RECEIVER.' Magazine cover, November 1928 An invention is a unique or, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result. An invention that achieves a completely unique function or result may be a radical breakthrough. Such works are novel and to. An inventor may be taking a big step in success or failure.

Some inventions can be patented. A legally protects the intellectual property rights of the inventor and legally recognizes that a claimed invention is actually an invention.

The rules and requirements for patenting an invention vary from country to country and the process of obtaining a patent is often expensive. Another meaning of invention is, which is an set of useful adopted by people and passed on to others.

The collected many such ideas in magazines and books. Invention is also an important component of artistic and design. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge, experience or capability. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Three areas of invention Inventions are of three kinds: scientific-technological (including medicine), sociopolitical (including economics and law), and humanistic, or cultural. Scientific-technological inventions include railroads,,, hybridization,, astronautics,, the atomic bomb, computing, the, and the smartphone. Sociopolitical inventions comprise new laws, institutions, and procedures that change modes of social behavior and establish new forms of human interaction and organization.

Examples include the British, the US, the Manchester (UK) General Union of Trades, the Boy Scouts, the, the, the, the, and the, as well as movements such as,,,, and animal-rights veganism. Humanistic inventions encompass culture in its entirety and are as transformative and important as any in the sciences, although people tend to take them for granted. In the domain of linguistics, for example, many alphabets have been inventions, as are all ( invented about 1,700 words). Literary inventions include the epic,, comedy, the, the, the, neoclassicism,,, Aestheticism,,,, and (according to Freud). Among the inventions of artists and musicians are oil painting, printmaking,,, musical tonality, atonality,, rock,, and the symphony orchestra. Philosophers have invented logic (several times),, idealism, materialism,,,,,,,,. Religious thinkers are responsible for such inventions as,,,, iconoclasm,,, secularism, ecumenism,.