Our Ideas and Insight   Testing Your Corporate "IQ"   "Lessons from the Sandbox"   Great Moments in Innovation   Don't Try This at Home   Links to Sources of Insight   Great Moments in Innovation   Looking for a touch of inspiration from others who looked at the world with different eyes. If so, here's a timeline of some of our favorite innovations. Use it as a starting point for your own exploration of a world full of ideas, opportunities and possibilities. And let us know if you have a "great moment" to share...     Stone Tools Ancient Guys East Africa Disposable Razors Cavepersons Western Europe Wheeled Vehicles Copper Age Guys Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe 4,000,000 B.C. 35,000 B.C. 3,500 B.C. Customer Service Innovator Unknown Somewhere outside Cleveland Mass Produced Beer Sumerian Women A Tavern in Mesopotamia The Arch Early Engineers Ur, Iraq 3,000 B.C. 3,000 B.C. 1,500 B.C. Atomic Theory of Matter Democritus Greece The Compass Inventor Unknown China Sneakers The Mayans Yucatan Peninsula 400 B.C. 4th Century B.C. 900 The Efficient Seed Drill Jethro Tull England The Telescope Refined by Galileo Padua, Italy Movable Type Pi-Sheng China 1701 1610 1040 Electric Battery Count Alessandro Volta Italy Aluminum H. Oerstad Denmark Earmuffs Chester Greenwood Farmington, Maine 1794 1825 1873 Velcro George de Mestral The Alps, Switzerland The Slinky Betty and Richard James Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Penicillin Alexander Fleming London, England 1948 1945 1928 The Microprocessor Intel Corporation Silicon Valley, California Artificial Human Heart Robert Jarvik Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Nanotubes Sumio Iijima Tokyo, Japan 1971 1982 1991   You Next Great Idea The Macarena Antonio Monge and Rafael Ruiz Seville, Spain   2004 1993     ::  About Us  ::  Our Services  ::  Ideas & Insight  ::  Seminars & Keynote Speaking  ::  Contact Us |  Privacy Policy  | Copyright 1997 - Venture Works, Inc. All Rights Reserved.