"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - October 2010

"Homemade Millionaire" Inventor Reality Show with Kelly Ripa

"Homemade Millionaire" featuring Kelly Ripa will premier on The Learning Channel (TLC), Friday, November 19th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT and will provide promising female entrepreneurs an opportunity to move forward with their ideas.

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InventHelp’s Roaming Caveman Contest Recap

At the beginning of the summer, InventHelp’s Marketing Department created a staff vacation contest. The "Roaming Cavey Contest" challenged InventHelp employees to snap digital photos of our mascot, Cavey, in as many unique places as possible. The location for the photo didn’t have to be exotic or foreign; it only needed to have an interesting backdrop for the Cavey bobblehead. The contest didn’t require employees to travel either, as "staycation" photos were also welcomed!

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Who Patented Electric Photography?

In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. Carlson had invented a copying process based on electrostatic energy and Xerography became commercially available in 1950 by the Xerox Corporation. Xerography comes from the Greek for "dry writing".

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