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Some inventions change the world, some just sweeten everyday life: a kaleidoscope of brilliant ideas, the story(s) of their creation and the people behind them.
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Who is behind the inventions we encounter every day? What stories are hidden behind famous IP applications? Which personalities have influenced our lives with their creativity?
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A googly-eyed mouse, a beer with a royal name, the oldest perfume manufacture or an "eternal" song: there are exciting stories behind many well-known brands.
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Did you know why the Beatles argued with a computer manufacturer for a long time? Or that the Queen guitarist is an inventive astrophysicist with a PhD? That Jimi Hendrix inspired several patents and brands? Bob Dylan named a whisky brand after a song?
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Daredevil men in flying clunkers, death-defying aviators and the women who sent Apollo to the moon: We remember the early heroines and heroes of aviation and space travel - and the technology behind them.
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A business empire that began with a mouse. A long anonymous cartoonist who is now considered the artist of the century. A doped Gaul, a Bavarian goblin, the legendary clear line and court cases over a drawn chav's favourite beer: comic culture is full of IP stories!
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From the horseless carriage to the racing car: which innovations shaped the early history of road transport, which people drove things forward and the epoch-making patents behind them.
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From ancient shipwreck marvels to code-breaking "bombs" to creative AI, the history of computing machines is full of surprises and drama.
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In 1888, John Boyd Dunlop could no longer watch his son struggle on a tricycle with hard rubber tyres on the bumpy road surface in Belfast and invented the air-filled tyre for him. But Dunlop was not the first to make this invention. The patent Dunlop received should never have been granted.
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Last updated: 22 June 2023
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