There was "Innocents Abroad" and "Roughing It," baggy and relentlessly facetious, and a couple of one-joke productions that are notable mostly for their titles, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and "The Prince and the Pauper," and whose sturdy high concepts — New England inventor time-travels to Camelot; rich and poor look-alikes change identities — can't save their stodgy execution.
Carmela thought that what she really should have been was an inventor, but time and time again other people had thought of the same ideas.
Plus, many times, for a busy engineer or inventor, spending time tinkering with a 3D printer is not worth it – just outsource it locally with a provider on 3D Hubs, or via one of the national bureaus.
So, having granted the inventor sufficient time to control the invention exclusively, the system cuts off the monopoly, full stop.
The film tells the tale of a brilliant boy inventor, who time travels to find the dastardly people who have stolen his latest innovation.
Furthermore, as a significant portion of the inventor's time was taken up by his new role of industrialist, which came with the commercialization of incandescent lighting and the phonograph, electrical developments were passing into the domain of university-trained mathematicians and scientists.
A possible reason for this is that working 'underground' allows the inventor the time and space to make mistakes, learn from them, and then build the finished article bit by bit without external interference.
For all that, spinning out university companies is rather resource-intensive, in terms of both funding and the inventor's time.
Finally, it is interesting that certain eponyms, as a product of their evolving popular use, evoke different meanings today than they would have in the inventor's time.
It is clear that both inventors spent time discerning possible problems and socially detrimental uses for their inventions, and offered detailed external, social solutions for the internal flaws of the devices.
