10 Important inventions that the inventor has earned nothing

It's incredible but true. There have been inventions that we all benefit from, but the inventor has hardly earned money. They are smart, generous, creative people. Yet they were not out of money. They gave away their ideas to improve the human race. We all know their inventions. This time the inventors are placed on a pedestal. They deserved it!

10. Microsoft Patience

Wes Cherry, the man behind the raging favorite computer game 'Microsoft Patience,' has never earned anything with his invention. Cherry designed the game in the summer of 1989. It is based on the same-name card game, designed by Susan Kare. Microsoft added the game for the first time in 1990 when Windows 3.0 came to market. The game was intended to help users get used to the mouse controls, such as the drag-and-drop technique needed for moving the cards.

9. Magnetic strip on credit cards

In 1968 Ron Klein designed the magnetic stripe on credit cards. Klein was CEO of Engineering at Utronics Systems Corp. (later GT & T Financial Data Services) in 1964. This company had a large number of retailers as a customer. Each month, they received a list of thousands of account numbers from these enterprises. The seller then had to go through the complete list every time a credit card was used to check if the credit card number knocked. This was a very time-consuming process. That's why Klein came up with the idea of ​​storing the list in memory with a keyboard that the seller could enter the credit card number. Then he devised coded holes on the card, which showed the number. His last idea was the use of magnetic tires (what was a new technology at that time), who could read the memory of the card. He put down his whole idea with a credit card manufacturer and then earned a lot of money.

8. Three-point belts

The three-point belt was designed by Nils Bohlin, who was employed by Volvo. It was introduced in 1959. The first car provided was a Volvo PV 544 and the first car that got the standard was a Volvo 122. After this development, Volvo, the owner of the company, made the design public. All car manufacturers were allowed to take over the three-point seat belt for free. He did not want a patent because he wanted to make as many people as a possible use of life to save lives.

7. Karaoke Machine

In the Netherlands, it is not so popular, but in many Asian countries, it is not mindful of everyday life. Even in buses, they make use of it. This is the Karaoke Machine. Its inventor, Daisuke Inoue, was the manager of a band that performed background music in clubs where people in business came to sing on stage. He got the idea of ​​karaoke (meaning "empty orchestra") when he could not serve one of his clients. He made a recording of the music and sent the customer the strap. As a result, he came up with the idea of ​​developing a machine with straps and amplifiers with his friends. In 1971 he successfully hired 11 of these karaoke machines at various clubs in Kobe. Soon, the Karaoke Machine was no longer thought out of Japan and other Asian countries. Although Daisuke Inoue did not patent for his invention and thus never earned anything, he won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2004. This is a variation on the Nobel Prize, given to people with unusual or trivial scientific achievements.

6. Lucifers

At the beginning of the 19th century, John Walker designed the matches, as we still know them today, of course, a very useful invention. He did not want a patent so that everyone could benefit. Walker owned a small pharmacy and drugstore. In his spare time, he thought about getting easier for everyday use. It surprised him that many chemical formulas produced explosive fire, while it was not yet possible to create a small fire to burn a piece of wood slowly. Walker began to experiment with combinations of different chemical formulas. A wooden stick dumped in a certain combination suddenly flared. On this basis, he realized matches containing sulfur, which by the contact with sulfide of antimony,

5. Tetris

Almost everybody has played this computer game, the game with the shapeable characters looking for a place: Tetris. The design comes from Aleksej Pajitnov. This is a Russian computer engineer and computer game developer. He is from childhood to great fan of all sorts of puzzles. In 1984 he developed Tetris, but the rights were owned by his employer, the Soviet government until 1996. As a result, he did not earn anything until that time. In 1991, Pajinov moved to the United States where he founded the 'Tetris Company' in 1996 together with Henk Rogers.

4. Polio vaccine

If the Polio vaccine inventor had applied for a patent, it would have yielded him $ 7 billion, but Jonas Salk did not. He believed (thank God) that it is your duty to propose public health. During a project in 1948, where Salk wanted to find out the number of different types of Polioviruses, Salk saw an opportunity to expand this project towards the development of a vaccine. During the seven years after that, he worked on the elaboration of the vaccine. In 1955 he successfully conducted a test, of which 1.8 million schoolchildren participated. When the vaccine was made public, Jonas Salk got the name 'miracle worker.' If asked who has the patent on the Polio vaccine, then his answer is: "Everyone! There is no patent.

3. Fidget Spinner

The poor Catherine Hettinger could not afford the $ 400 jackets, so the patent was on the Fidget Spinner in 2005 and did not benefit from the popularity of the spinning toy. Hettinger was a chemical engineer in training and developed the Fidget Spinner to distract children and to promote peace after visiting Israel. Since then, the toys have become hugely popular around the world. It is claimed to have a therapeutic effect on children with ADD, ADHD, anxiety, and autism. On the other hand, the rage is also seen as something that children distract from their work during the lesson. In the meantime, Fidget Spinners are prohibited in many schools.

2. Smiley

Harvey Ball is the developer of the smiley. After the Second World War, in 1959, Ball launched an advertising agency. One of his customers by having a dumper with an increase in distrust among his employees. There was a negative atmosphere at the company. Ball designed the smiley in less than 10 minutes, and 100 smiley tiles were issued to the workers to make them smile again at work. The use of the smiley was part of the company's friendship campaign. They became hugely popular in a tight space of time. The ball never copyrighted the smiley, which earned him only $ 45, the money the company paid him for the assignment. According to his son, Charles Ball, Harvey never regretted his decision: "Hey,

1. World Wide Web

Goedzak Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, made his idea public without patent or right. He gave it to everyone. Berners-Lee ran a department of a company where Computer Systems were developed. There he gained experience with computer networks. In 1989 he linked hypertext to the internet. This made the World Wide Web possible. After that, he founded a company, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Although he never bounced fully of money with his invention, he was honored and promoted from the British Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire to Knight Commander of the British Empire.