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Looking for a guest speaker for our "Harvest Banquet", I found myself at the local Armenian Heritage Museum. It was interesting to learn Armenian inventors hold the patents for (1) automatic transmission, (2) needleless inoculations, (3) MRI, (4) concrete mixers (the kind on mixer trucks).

Do you have an inventor in your ethnic family?

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+5 Views: 1463 Answers: 8 Posted: 8 years ago

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mycatsmom

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My mother's cousin, Dr. Willis Potts, invented the operation that save many a child's life. They were called '' a blue baby''. A blue baby is what they used to call a baby that was born with a hole in their heart between the chambers. In the late 50s or 60s, Dr. Potts was written up in an article in the Readers Digest on how he enabled this one girl to live . She was elementary school age who had started out as a '' blue baby '' If you know of anyone who had a child that had open heart surgery when just a baby, ( and I do ), you can thank my mom's cousin for that.

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ROMOS

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Oh lordy!!! Too many for me to type.

Scottish Inventions & The Canny Scots Behind Them

http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scottish-inventions.html

8 years ago. Rating: 6
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country bumpkin

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Roy took the words straight out of my mouth.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/29/10-native-inventions-and-innovations-changed-world-155541?page=0%2C0

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Clonge

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In my actual family, yes. My cousin, at last count, had over 20 patents. Unfortunately, he invented things while working for a big company, so he wasn't compensated as he would've been had he been self-employed.

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Bob/PKB

Cool! Is he credited with something recognizable outside the workplace?

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Clonge

Yes he is :"credited" with at least one recognizable thing that is found in millions of homes and on restaurant tables. The company took all the glory, since he developed it while working for them. When he turned 60 or so, the company decided that he was "no " longer needed". . He told me "I WAS the company".

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Bob/PKB

OK, I give up. What is it?

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Clonge

Unfortunately, I can't disclose it here. We're on bad terms with each other, and he might find out that I posted it here. Tracing the patent trail would might lead back to him and he might give me grief. Next time you come to NY, we'll do lunch; it might be on the table.

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Bob/PKB

Deal!

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west-bus

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Yes, most notably Frank Hornby, Liverpool's famous inventor, manufacturer and entrepreneur! He was the father and brainchild of those wonderful children's construction sets, the Meccano and if by any chance this doesn't ring a bell then check it out on Wiki. Yes, for me it was the Rolls Royce of toys in my childhood.