Best Inventions of the Creative Years: Photos
Patents are the DNA of inventions, spawning entire new industries, businesses and economies. A new study by the Brookings Institution finds the most productive periods in the United States occurred during the early 20th century and the Great Depression. There’s also been a patent boom in the past four years and the rate of patenting is nearly as high today as at any time in U.S. history. The most patents (per capita) came in 1916, 1915, 1885, 1932, 2010, 2011, 1931, 1883, 1890, and 1917. Here’s a look at some inventions from those years:
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