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Name: Who Built That
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Author: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs

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What’s in it for me? Meet the inventors and entrepreneurs who built the United States.

The foundation of the US is an entrepreneurial spirit. From the many clever inventions of Benjamin Franklin and the industrial entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century to modern day IT giants like Apple and Microsoft, the United States has always been at the forefront of entrepreneurship and innovation.

What made this possible? One thing: free market capitalism. In the United States, anyone with a vision and a willingness to work hard can capitalize on his idea and create a better society, without government and bureaucracy getting in the way.

This is changing apace, however, and the United States is beginning to lose its position as the world leader of innovation. It is not the country it once was, and unless we take action, the United States will be outdistanced by its competitors. Luckily, as these blinks will show you, there are ways to stop that from happening.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why Obama is dead wrong about inventors;
why the United States needs to change back to its old patent system; and
why glass blowers used to be thrown in prison.

Tinkerpreneurs are the driving force of innovation.

Have you ever heard of tinkerpreneurs? The term may be unfamiliar, but it’s more than likely that their ideas and work are present in several aspects of your life. Inventors that are part-tinkerers, part-entrepreneurs, tinkerpreneurs have chosen to take their inventions out of the laboratory and bring them into the commercial world to create companies, jobs and profit.

According to President Barack Obama, inventors are nothing special. They aren’t smarter than the rest of us, nor do they work harder. Public efforts such as schools, roads and bridges are all that underlie their success.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

In contrast to what Obama thinks, tinkerpreneurs are in fact engaged, clever and determined. They are the ones who create jobs and build companies, not merely the people who work those jobs or for those companies.

Tinkerpreneurs take full advantage of the opportunities provided by the United States to invent and invest. As makers and creators, tinkerpreneurs constitute the top one percent. They enable both progress and growth. And yet, theirs is a profession fraught with challenges.

For tinkerpreneurs, inventions are opportunities for commercial success.

When people become inventors, what are they aspiring to? A place in history? Money? Progress for society? For tinkerpreneurs, all three of these dreams are vital, because, for them, inventing is about doing business. And business means being opportunistic.

One tinkerpreneur that exemplifies this is Tony Maglica. Born in Croatia, this aspiring inventor came to the United States with hardly anything to his name. He took up and excelled in a position as a contractor, working harder, faster and longer than the others. This earned him a reputation for skill and integrity.

Tinkerpreneurs often face critics and naysayers along the road to success.

The world is full of party poopers, and if you’re a tinkerpreneur, you have to be prepared to fight them. The story of the Roebling family is a good example of how true tinkerpreneurs stick to their guns.

John Roebling, who would go on to patent a revolutionary wire rope, came from Prussia. There, he had first-hand experience with how time-consuming and wasteful the rope-making process was. He also noticed that no procedures could be improved without government approval. The Prussian government favored conformity over creativity, so Roebling moved to the United States, where he patented and promoted his invention with great success.

Small ideas can change the world, too.

Sometimes the innovations with the biggest impacts are the result of the simplest solutions. Take the humble crown cap, a little invention that made it possible to seal bottles safely, hygienically and cheaply.

William Painter, inventor of the crown cap, also faced critics and naysayers. To prove that his crown cap really did keep soda fresh, he shipped bottles closed with the cap to South America and back – a trip of 40 days – and celebrated their return with a tasting. Everyone agreed that the soda tasted as if it had been freshly bottled. Disposable and incredibly cost-effective, his invention became the industry standard, and the beverage industry was revolutionized.

Collaboration is the best catalyst for innovation.

As we’ve seen, invention is seldom a solitary job. Two heads are almost always better than one. Just consider Edward Libbey and Michael Owens, the team responsible for changing the way we produce glass.

Owens was an engineer; Libbey promoted and defended property rights. In an industry as cut-throat and secretive as the glass industry, Owens and Libbey wouldn’t have had success if they hadn’t had each other.

Innovation is seriously endangered in the United States.

The United States used to be a paradise for innovation. Why? Because of the US patent system – a unique structure that boosted small-scale inventors and allowed their innovations to be used throughout the world.

Established way back in 1790, the US patent system is market-based. The underlying idea is that financial reward fuels innovation, and that therefore patent holders should be entitled to sell, license or assign patents to others for monetary gain. In return, inventors agree to public disclosure and an expiration of the patent after a limited time period.

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Who Built That (2015) tells the stories of America’s most fascinating inventors from the last 150 years. These blinks reveal how these tinkerpreneurs, against all the odds, achieved commercial success with their revolutionary inventions.

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Über den Autor

Michelle Malkin is a columnist working for Fox News. She founded Hot Air and Twitchy.com. Who Built That is her fifth bestselling book.

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