The first part showed: (1) The patented and seminal precursor of current flat snap mouse traps had one part less.
These figures compare quite well with an estimate in 1869 by US Commissioner of Patents Samuel S. Sparks that 10% of all patents (not just mouse traps) had some commercial value (Basalla 1988).
If you have to use a fatal mouse trap, make sure it's a quick death.
The New Yorker, November 11 , 1967P. 62 A mouse the trap had slapped on, but not caught, View Article Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?
Many a mouse trap inventor has been crestfallen to find no such path beaten to his door.
The second part dealt with the question of whether an evolutionary account of mouse trap history has academic merit beyond its educational value.
The question of how adopting a better mouse trap may have affected the survival (natural selection) of people is not addressed below.
Humane mouse traps let you trap a mouse without killing it.
An evolutionary account of mouse trap history also has academic merits beyond its educational value.
