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The Shoelace: A Tangle Through Time
On this day, March 27th, over two centuries ago, a seemingly mundane yet profoundly influential invention was patente...
Honoring Women Inventors and Women Patent Holders on International Women's Day
In the spirit of International Women's Day, Retro Patents celebrates the monumental contributions of women inventors ...
Tetris Has Finally Been Beaten
In a remarkable feat in the world of gaming, 13-year-old Willis Gibson, known as "blue scuti" among gaming enthusiast...
1983: The year the video game industry almost died
The blame for this crash can be attributed to the saturation in the number of home consoles and available games and ...
Toys of the 1960s
The 60s are a considered a golden era for toys. Many parents had more money to spend on their children, many famili...
Remembering the Commodore 64®
For a substantial period of time in the 80s, the Commodore 64 dominated the computer market outselling IBM, Apple and...
The Boombox Era
If you weren’t around during this slice of American history or can’t remember, never fear, let’s take a brief glimps...
IT’S BLACK AND WHITE
A new print color to fit your space!
Retro Patents prints have always been classic, clean and timeless and that trend...
Are you an inventor? Be a Pioneer, not a Plagiarist
“Good artists copy, great artists steal”
This quote is often attributed to Pablo Picasso but did you know that h...
Inventor Tales - Square
Sam Wen, named inventor of the Square card reader, tells some tales about the innovation process behind the wor...
How Nikola Tesla Invented His World
This is a short post about how Nikola Tesla used his imagination to create some of his most famous inventio...