With her encouragement, I spent my weekends making dollhouse furniture and junk sculptures, playing chamber music and practicing the violin, and writing invented art-history journals and travel guides to made-up islands.
There are more than 100 pages of invented – and generally convincing – journal extracts.
Back in 2007, the Wall Street Journal even invented "Clinton Book Fatigue," to go along with the regular variety.
Famously, Byatt has composed passages of 19th-century verse for her two poets, and has invented extracts from Victorian journals and letters.
This has fostered an industry of plagiarism, invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, a fivefold increase on just two years earlier.Chinese scientists are still rewarded for doing good research, and the number of high-quality researchers is increasing.
If it wasn't in all the papers that's only because it began before the Gutenberg printing press was invented, so some hand journals may have missed it in the 13th century.
"I think one of the most important things that the Royal Society ever did -- and did it right at its very beginning -- was to invent the scientific journal", says Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society and co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Proof (typically in the form of a journal) that you invented your product first won't help you get a patent before someone else who filed first.[2].
In 1836, the year he founded the monthly journal Annals of Electricity, he invented the first suspended coil galvanometer, a device for measuring current.
We imagine that Doogie Howser would've invented this one, had he not been busy journaling and doing that doctor stuff.
