Modern Inventor Gifts

'It's my latest invention -- I call it the 'Emergency Broadcast Warning System.''

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

"Young Frankenstein"

Circa 1928, The Reese's Candy laboratory.

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

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

"What's a patent?"

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

'I told you it would be useful.'

Thinking Gears

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

' A good idea '

The first car accident.

"Google car."

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

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

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

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

A Communal Breakfast for the Young

Stoneage puncture repair kit...

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

'Mom, Dad! Look what I created in lab today!'

"So then, after I'd invented my time machine, I thought: why not go back and visit the good old days?"

Empty box of ideas

Needed Inventions: An Airbag To Protect The Viewer Against A Really Lousy Program.

Billy, can you deliver your show 'n tell this time without the fog machine?

Walking Luggage.

'Whoops! I think you've arrived a little too early for school today, Dad!'

Bright idea

"I bet you're curious about what's going on in the R&D Department."

Raincloud Umbrella

Eureka!

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

Creative department

Edison: The Early Years,