"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - August 2009

Join us for our INPEX® 25th Anniversary Show!

INPEX, the Invention & New Product Exposition, will be back in 2010 to celebrate 25 years of bringing inventors and industry together under one roof! For a quarter of a century, America's Largest Invention Trade Show has served as a bridge between the invention community and companies interested in new products. Our 25th Anniversary Show will be held June 16-18, 2010 at the new Monroeville Convention Center, just minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.

Read more about the 2010 INPEX Invention Show

Solar Cell Phone Invention is a Ray of Sunshine in Developing Countries

For individuals in developing countries, a lack of electricity makes the simple task of charging a cell phone an all-day event. In countries like Kenya, electricity is scarce, but there is one resource that's plentiful and free: solar energy. This August, as summer draws to a close, InventHelp explores the awesome power of the sun and how it is changing the lives of Kenyan cell phone users.

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Everyone knows the Wright brothers were the first to build and fly an airplane, right?

Or were they? The Wright brothers occupy the history books as the first to develop and operate a motor-driven "heavier than air flying machine." They also received all the glory and fame for the feat. But there are those who believe that someone beat them to the punch. According to the August 19, 1901, Boston Transcript and New York Herald newspapers, Gustave Whitehead took to the air three times in his airplane "No. 21," which was shaped like an albatross. The date the papers recorded for the flights was August 14, 1901, more than two years before the December 1903 flights that made the Wright brothers household names.

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