Lighter Side
Accidental Inventions: Stainless Steel
Harry Brearley was working to prevent corrosion in rifle barrels when he accidentally invented something that would revolutionise the world of cutlery. Not an obvious route, but Brearley was an obse....  »
Accidental Inventions: Teflon
Teflon was invented in 1938 by a DuPont research chemist named Roy J plunkett. One day he was experimenting with a coolant called TRE (tetrafluoroethylene) to establish its suitability for refrigera....  »
The Great Inventors: Donald Duncan
Although DF Duncan Senior, born in 1892, was a talented inventor (he co-patented a four-wheel hydraulic car brake and came up with the Eskimo pie), his real genius was marketing. ...  »
Silence is golden
Music producer Mike Batt is best known to British audiences as the composer of the theme tune to The Wombles, a 1970s children’s show about a clan of litter-obsessed furry creatures living on Wimb....  »
Coca Cola: Bite the wax tadpole?
When Coca-Cola first entered the Chinese market in 1928, company representatives faced the conundrum of coming up with a sequence of characters that represented the sounds 'koh ka ko lah' without me....  »
The Black and the White (and the Chutzpah)
Plagiarism is nothing new......  »
Good, Bad and Ugly?
The negative response to the 2012 London Olympic Games logo had brand experts predicting that it a very short future. But maybe...just maybe, London has got it spot on, says Richard Brass...  »
Scouting for Talent
What has camping, tying knots and cooking sausages over campfires got to do with copyright piracy? More than you would imagine, if you are a Boy Scout in Los Angeles, says Richard Brass...  »
Fancy footwear
A splash of technological innovation can transform even the most pedestrian activity into the latest craze, says Richard Brass ...  »
Who owns a tradition?
Western businesses may hunger for the wit and wisdom of the East, but that shouldn't afford them the right to register an ancient tradition as a Twenty-first Century idea, says Richard Brass...  »