Mike.Perry
2005-08-16, 09:26 AM
Hi
Read the below in the latest Cadalyst Newsline (08/15/05) edition; thought I would post it here as some Inventor users might find it interesting...
National Inventors' Month Shines Spotlight on New Process of Invention
August is National Inventors' Month, an initiative founded in 1998 by Inventors' Digest magazine, the United Inventors Association and the Academy of Applied Science to encourage kids and adults to be creative and inventive. Autodesk has taken the opportunity to salute a few of today's leading inventors who use the company's Inventor software.
"The diversity of innovation coming from today's inventors is no less astonishing in our time than [Thomas] Edison's was in his," said Robert Kross, vice-president of Autodesk's Manufacturing Solutions Division.
For Graham Hawkes, Autodesk's 3D design software has offered the ability to navigate the unknown. Hawkes developed the Deep Flight winged submersible — a small, lightweight craft that operates without a dedicated mother ship and provides safe, economical access to the unexplored depths of the sea. With his invention of the underwater submersible, Hawkes intends to prove that sea travel is just as important as trips to the moon.
Charlie Wiplinger, chief engineer at Wipaire — a Minnesota-based manufacturer of aircraft floats — uses his inventing power to fight forest fires. He created a firefighting aircraft called the Fire Boss. Using special landing gear, the Fire Boss can skim 820 gallons of water off a surface, then take off to deliver the water to fires. Wiplinger used Autodesk's 3D design software to completely revamp the aircraft floats used for dumping water on burning forests, and his Fire Bosses are now deployed in locations around the globe. http://www.inventorsdigest.com (http://www.inventorsdigest.com/), http://www.autodesk.com (http://www.autodesk.com/)
Read the below in the latest Cadalyst Newsline (08/15/05) edition; thought I would post it here as some Inventor users might find it interesting...
National Inventors' Month Shines Spotlight on New Process of Invention
August is National Inventors' Month, an initiative founded in 1998 by Inventors' Digest magazine, the United Inventors Association and the Academy of Applied Science to encourage kids and adults to be creative and inventive. Autodesk has taken the opportunity to salute a few of today's leading inventors who use the company's Inventor software.
"The diversity of innovation coming from today's inventors is no less astonishing in our time than [Thomas] Edison's was in his," said Robert Kross, vice-president of Autodesk's Manufacturing Solutions Division.
For Graham Hawkes, Autodesk's 3D design software has offered the ability to navigate the unknown. Hawkes developed the Deep Flight winged submersible — a small, lightweight craft that operates without a dedicated mother ship and provides safe, economical access to the unexplored depths of the sea. With his invention of the underwater submersible, Hawkes intends to prove that sea travel is just as important as trips to the moon.
Charlie Wiplinger, chief engineer at Wipaire — a Minnesota-based manufacturer of aircraft floats — uses his inventing power to fight forest fires. He created a firefighting aircraft called the Fire Boss. Using special landing gear, the Fire Boss can skim 820 gallons of water off a surface, then take off to deliver the water to fires. Wiplinger used Autodesk's 3D design software to completely revamp the aircraft floats used for dumping water on burning forests, and his Fire Bosses are now deployed in locations around the globe. http://www.inventorsdigest.com (http://www.inventorsdigest.com/), http://www.autodesk.com (http://www.autodesk.com/)