Tag - invention

New Electric Car Is Tribute to Tesla Inventor

A new sports car, made by Tesla Motors, is a tribute to Nikola Tesla, the most famous person few have heard of.

The car, which can go zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds is completely electric. It doesn’t use a drop of gasoline. The sports car also doesn’t lose power in altitude. It retails for $128,000.

Tesla came to the United States in 1884 from Croatia. He wanted to harness the power of Niagara Falls. Tesla began working in Thomas Edison’s lab in New Jersey and began improving upon Edison’s line.

Tesla was looked upon as an insane person, as he spoke of transmitting pictures, wireless electricity and transmitting electricity. But he was way before his time. He is credited with several inventions that we could not live without today – AC power, an electric motor, radio

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Lawsuit filed in district court

This is kind of thing you keep private, but that all changed when I got a call from a newspaper reporter last Thursday who had questions about the lawsuit we filed just two days prior. The story ran in the Denver Post on Friday, August 19th, and the on-line version of the story sprouted legs over the weekend… judging from the number of emails in my inbox. My only reason for posting this entry is to publicly address the questions that are being asked. If you read my blog, you know how serious I take issues centered around intellectual property. Over the years I have licensed a number of my ideas to companies who, in turn, pay royalties when the products are sold. License agreements are a great way to find a home for an invention that eventually makes its way to the market place. The concept is simple: ideas are worth money… especially if consumers buy the products. At Steve Spangler Science, we have a number of license agreements through our Teacher-Inventor Program where teachers receive conpensation for unique ideas that we use to create new products.

With regard to the lawsuit,
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