Improving on Hookers design, in , British inventor, James Henry Atkinson patented the Little Nipper, that included a weight-activated treadle, as a tripping mechanism. The Little Nipper, with its rectangular flat, wooden base, spring trap and wire fastenings still holds the record for its 38,th of a second closing speed. Procter Brothers headquarters even houses a mousetrap museum featuring exhibits.
Different types of mousetraps have been developed over time, including simple DIY toilet paper rolls extending over a deep bucket or some sort of container that tips mice into the container when they are drawn to bait placed at the end of the roll.
In the s, Austin Kness received a patent for his live capture device, the Kness-Ketch All Multiple Catch trap that uses no bait and can trap several mice at a time. Other innovations in mousetraps include the controversial glue trap and electric traps.
Along with the Kness device and the Little Nipper, these inventions comprise a list of about twenty mousetraps that proved commercially successful, out of the more than 4, mousetrap issued.
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Because rodent populations grow at rapid rates, addressing a rodent issue as soon as possible is essential. Also, rodents, especially rats, tend to be wary of new things in their environments, so reducing rodent populations can take a long time, if not skillfully attended to. Traps and commercial baits can be messy and dangerous to small children and pets and rodent carcasses can be difficult to find, behind wall voids and other hard-to-reach places.
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Happy wishes to you and yours during this special time of year! She couldn't, of course, but she's not the first one to think that. We've been reading -- and arguing -- about the decline of the American entrepreneurial spirit since the end of World War II, when Galbraith insisted that the giant corporation had replaced the small businessman. Big business, big labor, big government. And then the '60s happened.
Things got worse: Walmart was founded, McDonald's started popping up in every state across the country and mom-and-pop shops were forced out of small towns.
A natural extension of the American ethos, which would have you believe that by working hard you can succeed, might suggest that by working harder you can succeed more; by striking out and making a name for yourself you can live forever, if not physiologically, then through your creations, biological or otherwise.
This country was founded and built by risk-takers and innovators. And while we live in the age of Amazon and Facebook, Google and Microsoft -- huge tech companies all, each continuing to absorb smaller companies as they prosper and grow -- I don't think Galbraith was ever completely right. The giant corporation is here -- but it has always existed alongside the small-time American entrepreneur. And representative of that entrepreneurial spirit is, of all things, the mousetrap: A quick-release spring and a piece of metal bent in a few key places that Americans have been trying to improve upon for more than years.
And that little saying has popped up time and again, most recently in the April issue of Wired. In a feature story about the founders of Kickstarter, an arts patronage idea that has morphed into a website responsible for funding thousands of projects, Carlye Adler dismissed Emerson's dictum as "a lovely thought.
Between , when the United States Patent Office opened its doors, and , the year that Jack Hope wrote a story about the device for American Heritage magazine, more than 4, mousetrap patents were awarded in dozens of different subclasses, including "Electrocuting and Explosive," "Swinging Striker," "Choking or Squeezing," and 36 others. That's an average of more than two dozen patents every year for more than years. What makes that number more spectacular is that 95 percent of those patents were given to amateur, or first-time inventors.
That's more patents than have been awarded for any other device, according to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History NMAH , which is currently celebrating the mousetrap by displaying several different designs on the first floor of the museum in one of several long glass cases that greet visitors, both new and returning, when they enter the building.
I still have it and it works just fine. I'm surprised it never caught on. Much better than the snap trap. No mess. Matthew Poole Sat, See our privacy policy. Collections Search Search for Show only items with images.
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