iCrank Blog

Need a break? Here is a great site produced by the University of Houston that is a collection of articles by Dr. John H. Lienhard. There are over 2000 of them on the history of various machines and the people that invented them. They are short and entertaining. We have created a shortcut link that you can click to quickly get a random article. Try it here: Random Engines Article.

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One of our more dreaded tasks…patent searches. Has anyone ever used the USPTO site? - very painful. Lately we have been using the freepatentsonline.com site instead. While it is much better, we think there is finally an even better alternative - Google Patent Search. Google has leveraged their search technology… Read the rest of this entry »