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6,000 Patents Hidden By The Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act

Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

#patents #USPTO #inventions #inventors #secrecy #laws #Tesla #USGov #Government #NationalSecurity #GagOrders

@academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

August is National Inventor’s Month and we’re celebrating The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This Netflix film is based on the true story of William Kamkwamba, whose creativity, persistence and courage as a schoolboy provided a solution to devastating drought for his family and eventually many others in his country of Malawi and beyond.

We offer a Discussion Guide and a Curriculum Guide with classroom-ready lessons for this film, to make it easy to work with in different settings. Students can learn more about wind power and the physics of generating electricity, as well as lessons in English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film Studies and more. These are powerful resource to inspire young inventors in your classroom!

journeysinfilm.org/film/the-bo

@stemed @education @edutooters

🚀🤦‍♂️ Ah, the riveting saga of "Prolly Trees," where every basement philosopher thinks they're Newton, reinventing the wheel of discovery... again! 😂 But don't worry, it's all just a social experiment to prove that #inventors are just the universe's copy-paste function. 🤓🔄
dolthub.com/blog/2025-06-03-pe #ProllyTrees #SocialExperiment #Philosophy #CopyPaste #Universe #HackerNews #ngated

www.dolthub.com · People Keep Inventing Prolly TreesA novel data structure has been invented four times now, with three different names. We think that's a good sign.
Artwork by Jakub "biko" Bitka, Mateusz Filek & Marcin Papis in Szczecin (Poland) dedicated to Polish scientists and inventors
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Wracamy do Szczecina na ul. Kolumba, gdzie z okazji 100-lecia odzyskania niepodległości na murze okalającym Zakład Gazowniczy namalowano portrety polskich naukowców i różne ich wynalazki. Autorami muralu są Jakub "biko" Bitka, Mateusz Filek i Marcin Papis. Niedługo ostatnia, czwarta już porcja zdjęć. Fot. Wojciech Suszko

#łowcymurali #muralhunters #streetart #urbanart #sztukaulicy #muralart #mural #murals #wallart #streetartpoland #streetartpolska #polandstreetart #polskastreetart #polska #poland #szczecin #nauka #science #scientists #inventors

Good Morning #Canada
Today, we share the story of a Canadian inventor who was both the father of the petroleum industry and the savior of whales. Abraham Pineo Gesner (May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene in the 1850s. His new fuel, distilled from coal, quickly replaced whale oil in lamps, reducing the slaughter of the large mammals.

#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
notyourgrandfathersmining.ca/a

notyourgrandfathersmining.caAbraham Gesner and Kerosene | Not Your Grandfathers Mining Industry, Nova Scotia, Canada

I’m here to build a network of minds—makers, dreamers, engineers, and visionaries.

We have the tools to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
What we lack is collaboration, shared purpose, and the right system.

That’s why I started working on WIN: the Worldwide Innovation Network.
It’s not a company. It’s a movement.

Curious? Let’s talk.

One of the saddest pages I have seen while searching for #conservative #inventors .

conservapedia.com/Best_conserv

The handful of claims of 'inventions' include the Conservative Party of NY (Edison's son), the #fosburyflop , production lines, the #internet ( Tim Berners-Lee has attacked the Tories over misinformation) and conservative language.

Can anyone think of any real inventions that conservative leaning people have made?

Any truly innovative art?

The feeling I get is that right leaning people are actually a drag on society and their only contribution is exploitative.