Trip to Inventure Place

August 27, 2004

by Ray, TBI Survivor

The Inventor’s Hall of Fame in downtown Akron is quite an interesting as well as educational place to visit. We went to a floor with miniature models of several inventions. The inventors were supposed to submit small scale working models of their inventions to the government agency in charge of granting patents. Because of the large number of applications and insufficient storage space for all the models, it was decided that sketches or diagrams of the inventions be submitted instead. There were posters of each inventor on the wall, along with the item they invented. We saw a poster of Walt Disney, who is responsible for many of today’s innovations in animation before the advent of computer or digital animation. We also saw a poster of Thomas Alva Edison, who developed so many techniques used in electrical management. The best part was the bottom floor, where there was a lot of hands on, experiencing the fun of creating things using blocks, wheels, plastic rods and connectors.

All together, it was a terrific place to visit, fun and educational! I highly recommend a return visit.

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