Isnt it surprising, that we tend to hold on to things like money, body, job, etc, yet not think twice about giving someone our heart, even when we know that the latter can hurt a lot more than the former???
Cheers!!!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Saturday, October 07, 2006
I was 13 years late...
It was one of my worst days today.
The events which led to this day began in my sixth semester when serendipity struck me during a tea break. It was while preparing for GATE when I came up with a brilliant idea. A rotary engine based on gears. I searched on google but didnt find any mechanism similar to it. The idea seemed so revolutionary and crude that I gave up other stuff and concentrated just on the idea. Attempting permutations and combinations, going through various types of gears (involute, cycloid, etc) I spent the major part of my last three semesters figuring out how to make the idea feasible. And the result was a great concept, applaused by all my mates and some professors whom I showed my design.
Needless to say, I wanted to see it turn into a patent. But first I wanted to select it as my M.Tech. project and analyse it completely.
As luck would have it, I surfed through some patents websites today. And yes, you guess it correctly. I found a similar mechanism patent filed in 1993 by some professor in USA. The novelty of the idea is as good as gone.
I was 13 years late. And going by mechanical technology pace, its a small time. So I console myself. But what struck me first was the possible reason for this. India is a country wherein you will find technology in mechanical engineering which is many years old. Whatever new you can think of from there is something which is still a few years old. However, if students were exposed to newer technologies, like in the Europian union or the US of A, probably the chances of finding something "innovative" would have been higher. It seems we can only "discover" here in India, but rarely "invent". Atleast in Mechanical Engineering.
So what do I do now? Being a bad case of sporadic optimism (if that is defined), I intend to work on it still. Maybe improve upon my design and compare it with the existing patent. Many positives came out of the exercise. Like I got a feel of Pro Mechanism (a software). And how to be patient when your computer keeps hanging for the thousandth time. But what motivates me the most is the fact that I could think like what that experienced professor sitting in USA could think, even if by serendipity. And also the fact that I was only 13 years late.
Cheers!!!
The events which led to this day began in my sixth semester when serendipity struck me during a tea break. It was while preparing for GATE when I came up with a brilliant idea. A rotary engine based on gears. I searched on google but didnt find any mechanism similar to it. The idea seemed so revolutionary and crude that I gave up other stuff and concentrated just on the idea. Attempting permutations and combinations, going through various types of gears (involute, cycloid, etc) I spent the major part of my last three semesters figuring out how to make the idea feasible. And the result was a great concept, applaused by all my mates and some professors whom I showed my design.
Needless to say, I wanted to see it turn into a patent. But first I wanted to select it as my M.Tech. project and analyse it completely.
As luck would have it, I surfed through some patents websites today. And yes, you guess it correctly. I found a similar mechanism patent filed in 1993 by some professor in USA. The novelty of the idea is as good as gone.
I was 13 years late. And going by mechanical technology pace, its a small time. So I console myself. But what struck me first was the possible reason for this. India is a country wherein you will find technology in mechanical engineering which is many years old. Whatever new you can think of from there is something which is still a few years old. However, if students were exposed to newer technologies, like in the Europian union or the US of A, probably the chances of finding something "innovative" would have been higher. It seems we can only "discover" here in India, but rarely "invent". Atleast in Mechanical Engineering.
So what do I do now? Being a bad case of sporadic optimism (if that is defined), I intend to work on it still. Maybe improve upon my design and compare it with the existing patent. Many positives came out of the exercise. Like I got a feel of Pro Mechanism (a software). And how to be patient when your computer keeps hanging for the thousandth time. But what motivates me the most is the fact that I could think like what that experienced professor sitting in USA could think, even if by serendipity. And also the fact that I was only 13 years late.
Cheers!!!
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