The American Invention

"It doesn't mean a thing. Inventors are supposed to be like that. I get funny ideas myself. Everybody wants to make something. Any American does." pg 37. We are always urged with the need to want to make something, whether it's a physical creation or an achievement. I take myself as an example, being somebody who loves creating stuff. Whenever I want to make something up for a project or such, I usually think of something that's either very recognizable, which people connect easily, or something completely new. Making ordinary things keep you ordinary. That is why people choose to either make something new or something people can connect easily without it being completely predictable. We tend to think that one of the best things we can make in our lives is to create something. By creating something we are immortalized somehow, which is what the human being has always wanted to do, become immortal. We are also helping others out in something that wasn't as easy to do before the invention, as well as wanting to be recognized in life by the creation of it. It sort of gives us security that we actually got to do something worth the while during our life time.

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And in accordance with Willhelm, it's true that inventors many times think of simple ideas that maybe one day could become extremely useful. A clear example is Benjamin Franklin, who thought of ideas as simple as tying a key to a kite to experiment with lighting and electricity, and which turned out resulting in having almost everything around us being run by electricity. He also invented many other things including the idea of firefighters, which at that time might have seemed more of a silly job since fires weren't that common, and paying for the expenses of it would be nonsense. And many ideas turn out to be like that, first being an idea that is either not affordable or simply is considered something nonsense, to becoming a widely used invention.