The study of invention can help our students connect the past to the present and to the future. Inventors are simply people, male and female, young and old, who solve problems. Every time someone comes with a new solution to a problem, he or she is an inventor. Some solutions are simple. Some are complex.
Inventors like to tinker with their ideas.
Inventors are persistent. Inventors share their inventions. Since that time, Americans have invented the laser, the trampoline, the Frisbee, Life Savers, the Dixie cup, and Kleenex. New Hampshire young inventors have invented peppermint dentist gloves, a device to buzz when someone tips back in his chair, and a musical toilet seat. Through biographies and journals students can learn about the process of inventing, as well as the traits of the inventors.