Invention Admirer Mugs

'Great invention, Rex! What are you going to call it?'

British Patent (applied for) The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter

"He said he was working on something big. Now e;ll never know what it was."

'The authorities have called me an 'arsonist', but I prefer 'the world's greatest inventor'!'

Benjamin Franklin

'I've invented food, and I've invented shelter -- two out of three isn't so bad!'

'NOW you've done it! Put a hole right in the middle of our new dining room table! What the heck do we do with it now?'

"It's a new hunting invention - It makes roadkill!"

Lumiere brothers caricature

Henry Fox Talbot

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

'Let's not go by the book.'

"What's a patent?"

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

'I told you it would be useful.'

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

'Some of those youngsters have come up with a terrific new idea - feathers.'

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

'Can our software do that?'

Eureka!

'I want you to paddle against the current.'

"Is it just a scary coincidence that the words 'changes' and 'unknown' both have 7 letters?"

Creative department

'A wheel? No wonder I broke a tooth. I thought it was a donut.'

Bob invents a device that electrically shocks anyone who calls between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Early cyborg.

The original paperless office

"It's o.k., come on out."

"What if, instead of the safe being filled with rawhide, it's filled with catnip and mice!" "No one will buy it." "Drugs and rodents? Who's our demographic?" "The Simpsons already did that."

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"By the end of next week, these fads such as social media, automobiles and making fire will all be over."

'This will be great for chase scenes.'

Bernstein's got himself a driverless club