"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - August 2010

Oops! Five Accidental Inventions

An old saying goes, "if you don’t learn from your mistakes, there’s no sense making them." That quote is especially true when it comes to ideas. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few can see the innovation beyond the error. Some of the most famous inventions have been born through complete accident..

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InventHelp Celebrates National Inventors' Month

August is National Inventors' Month; a month-long celebration of all of the innovators that have enriched our world with their ideas. We at InventHelp are excited that this time is set aside to celebrate the achievements of the innovative and the entrepreneurial, and we wanted to highlight some of the most prominent inventions that occurred in the month of August.

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Who invented the xerography process, the system the Xerox company was founded on?

Chester Carlson was a patent agent who grew tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959, he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process; the company founded on the system is Xerox.

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