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Yup, the concept of independent invention that you're talking about is called Multiple discovery . A list of historical multiple discoveries is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries . The jet engine is a famous one. Going way back to pre-history, I'm sure things like the w...

Most patents are a joke. In the electronic industry employees are encourage to submit patent applications. I have more than a dozen but I am proud of only 3. You would not believe the crap that get patented, some is downright NOT working or based on sound theory and experimental success, some is so...

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Homemade tools guy here, not a spammer :) (PROOF: 350+ forums that know us ) Just a note that we featured Greg B's excellent mill table stop in our HomemadeTools.net newsletter: http://mailchi.mp/buildthreads/homemade-tool-of-the-week-lathe-dro-garbage-disposal-motor-342765 We now have 620 homemade ...

That portable machine shop is a fan favorite. Nice to see the machinist-in-training putting it to good use.

Just a heads up that we recently featured The Home Machinist Forum's 54 best homemade tools on HomemadeTools.net. Here's a link to the thread: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/rocker.gif 54 Best Homemade Tools from the Home Machinist Forum at Chaski.org We share some members between Home...

Jon here from HomemadeTools.net. I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the kind words :) To celebrate our 20,000th homemade tool, we made a new ebook featuring our top 50 homemade tools. You guys are welcome to it for free: http://download.homemadetools.net/50MustReadTools.pdf http://down...