发明者

ONE of the most enduring urban myths is how the patent for an ever-lasting light bulb pioneered by a lone inventor was snapped up by a cartel of lighting manufacturers, who promptly secreted it away to protect their hugely profitable replacement business.

说的是一位孤独的发明者首创的能持续照明的电灯泡专利如何被一个灯具生产联合企业集团抢先弄到手，并立即把它藏匿起来，以保护这桩能给他们带来巨额利润的以电灯取代煤气灯的生意。

The Institute of Patentees and Inventors is a non-profit making association of over 1,000 members who pay an annual subscription.

专利权人和发明者学会是一个由1000多名成员组成的非赢利性组织。

Institute of Patentees and Inventors; Ptent Protection; Patent Exploiration

自由关键词：专利权人和发明者学会；专利保护；专利开发

He was particularly interested in the idea of a wireless telegraph. 20. Marconi studied books by many inventors, including Heinrich Hertz, who discovered what we now call radio waves, and Michael Faraday, the inventor of the dynamo for producing electrical energy.

马可尼研究了许多发明家的著作，包括海因里希·赫兹的书，他发现了我们现在所称的无线电波，以及迈克尔·法拉第的书，他是产生电能之发电机的发明者。

This ingenious technique-which won its inventors, one of whom was Steven Chu, now America's energy secretary, a Nobel prize-works by bombarding an object with laser light at a frequency just below that which it would readily absorb and re-emit if it were stationary.

这项独特精巧的技术为它的发明者们赢得了一座诺贝尔奖，其中之一就是现任美国能源部长朱棣文。&光阱&的工作原理是用特定频率的激光轰击受试物体，这一频率的激光能够很容易地被受试物体所吸收，如果该物体处于稳定状态，激光会被重发射。

And those who do choose to use them may be sitting with the weapon, which resembles, say, a compact mobile telephone, on the restaurant table next to the bottle of wine, or beside them at the swimming pool.

所有这些可能由那些发明者完全控制，还有那些选择利用此技术的人，完全是举手之劳，通俗的讲就象一个放在餐桌上或者在游泳池边的一瓶洋酒边的一部精致的手机。

He was not a good student in school, but by the time he was a teenager, he had already had several jobs: store owner, telegraph operator, and inventor.

在学校里他不是一个好学生，但是在他还是一个少年的时候他就有了几份工作：店主、报务员和发明者。

As early as 1936, inventors were applying for patents on self-opening can designs, but the technology of the time made these inventions impractical.

早在1936年，发明者申请自动开启式罐设计的专利，但是那时的技术使这些发明变的不切实际。

GRT's artificial tree is based on an environmentally friendly resin, originally developed by Klaus Lackner, a professor at Columbia University in New York.

全球研究科技公司研发的人工树是基于一种环保树脂，最初的发明者是Klaus Lackner，他是纽约哥伦比亚大学的教授。

They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.

他们断言，我们并不是音乐的发明者，在音乐领域里，我们是后来者。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。