Artur Fischer from plastic materials (Polyamide) and is available in various shapes and sizes since 1958 (see Wall plug). Fischer held over 1100 patents and overtook Thomas Alva Edison, who held 1093 patents. Fischer also held 5867 trade rights and invented fischertechnik. Further inventions are (bone-)plugs for fixing bone fractures and one of Fischer’s most recent inventions is a gadget that makes it possible to hold and cut the top off an egg of any size. He got started on the problem when a hotel owner complained to him that his guests, on opening their boiled eggs for breakfast, always made a
Institute for Social Inventions Institute for Social Inventions The Institute for Social Inventions was a think-tank set up in 1985 to publicise and launch good ideas for improving the quality of life. Its founder Nicholas Albery (1948-2001) sought to promote non-technological innovations. The Institute emerged from the informal network of Social centers and Info-services which spread around in London throughout the 1970s. One of the earliests of these centers was BIT Information Service, founded in 1968 by John "Hoppy" Hopkins. It was during his years as coordinator of BIT that Nicholas Albery came out with the idea of an Institute who would promote all