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In 1903, Mary Anderson and a friend
were driving to New York. It was
raining heavily and they had to open
the windows of their car and put their
heads out to see better. Suddenly
Mary had an idea.
In 1869, Thomas Adams was trying
to produce rubber out of the juice he
got from Mexican sapodilla trees. He
wanted to produce toys, rain boots
and bicycle tyres. The experiment
didn’t work. While he was thinking
about this, he took a piece of the
rubber he was working with and put
it in his mouth.
In 1897, British inventor James Henry
Atkinson was looking at the family’s
supply of potatoes, which they kept in
a room under their house. He noticed
that mice had eaten some of the
potatoes so he invented something
that he called ‘Little Nipper’ to stop
them.
In 1886, Josephine Cochran was
standing in her kitchen in Illinois,
USA. The family lunch was fi nished.
There was a mountain of dishes in
front of Mrs Cochran and she got
quite angry, thinking that she had to
do this job every day. ‘If nobody else
is going to invent a machine for this,
I’ll do it myself,’ she thought.
In the early years of the eighteenth
century, in the middle of the summer,
an unknown Dutchman was looking
at one of the many canals in Holland.
He was thinking that he often
travelled along the frozen canals on
ice skates in the winter. He got a little
impatient.
‘I don’t want to wait for winter!’
he thought.