What is an Inventor?

An inventor is considered the first person to create a new item or different way of doing something. Inventors are highly original thinkers who tend to look for ways to solve problems and improve on existing ideas to develop a useful item that fills a need. Some early famous inventors have changed the way entire nations of people live.

Thomas Edison, born 11 February 1847 in Milan, Ohio, was an inventor who certainly changed the world with his invention of the light bulb in 1880. Edison not only invented the light bulb, but also the systems to use it with such as electricity generators for homes. He also created systems for sound and film recording.

It's important to note that perfecting an invention until it's completely usable is an important quality of being an inventor. Inventors aren't people who just come up with a new idea. Rather, inventors actually create a finished product or method of doing something. Anyone could potentially become an inventor, but few people have the perseverance to follow an idea through to an original, perfected product or method because this takes a great deal of time, research and experimenting.

Do inventors create an invention only for the money that they may make from it or do the create the invention to help others that are experiencing the same problems? Tesla and Moray both were trying to help people by providing free electricity to everyone on the planet. 

I added that bit about Thomas Edison as it is very interesting, did he invent the light bulb to help people or did he invent it to make a lot of money? You can do the research and decide.

The question to ask yourself is why are you inventing the device you are presently working on?

Is it to help humanity?

Is it to make lots of money?

Is it to help people as well as to make money?

Only you as an inventor  can answer this question, there is no right or wrong answer, but it is interesting to understand where you are coming from and it may change the way that you design your invention.

Bill Gates made his fortune with microsoft but now spends his time and personal wealth helping others that bare less fortunate. All that I am saying is that making money from your invention is not a bad thing.

  

Until next time keep on with your inventing