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    more than forty-four hundred mousetraps patented‚ fewer than two dozen have earned their creators a cent. http://www.americanheritage.com/content/better-mousetrap The snap trap’s annual sales are a company secret (whispers put them in the vicinity of thirty million). But the Woodstream Corporation is willing to acknowledge that the Victor snap trap outsells all other American mousetraps combined —including its own less popular models and those of sixty other U.S. mousetrap manufacturers—by a ratio of

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    company. Currently‚ Trap-Ease has only manufactured one product that is the mousetrap‚ which is also known as the Trap-Ease mousetrap. This mousetrap is designed to allow customers to enjoy the means of dealing with mouse problem efficiently. Customers can be at ease by avoiding the safety and cleanliness problems created by the traditional spring-loaded traps or poison. One of the main materials for Trap-Ease mousetrap is plastic. The trap is a square‚ plastic tube measuring about 6 inches long

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    Mousetrap Car Final Paper Design Description Our car had four CD wheels that were attached to the axle of the car with CD spacers. We put balloons over the wheels for traction. The body of the car was two pieces of wood that was attached by the mousetrap car sitting on top of both of the pieces of wood. The lever arm is attached to the mousetrap with a piece of string to turn the axle; therefore‚ turning the wheels. Then the body of the car is held in place by four CD spacers on the outside of

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    The Big Cheese of Mousetraps If a man [can] ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door. As Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease America‚ contemplated the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson framed on the wall of her Costa Mesa‚ California office‚ she wondered whether Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap - Trap-Ease - but the world didn’t seem all that excited. IF YOU BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP‚ WILL IT SELL?

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    THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND Dramatic criticism of the play by Tom Stoppard | | | | |In The Real Inspector Hound Stoppard makes fun of the critical jargon used by reviewers; when they make quasi-official | |pronouncements‚ they are pompous and silly. Of course the satire is especially effective when it is partly self-satire‚ coming | |from a former theater critic

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    Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just returned from the National Hardware Show in Toronto. Standing in the trade show display

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    Mouse Trap: Woodstream Corporation The company that has been chosen for this case study is Woodstream Corporation. This company was founded in 1832 and was formerly known as Animal Trap Company of America. It manufactures and markets a variety of pest control products including rodent control‚ caring control for pets and different types of mouse traps. It has been around for more than 150 years and marketed over 2500 unique products. Woodstream works to bring innovation to consumers by combining

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    “The Rat Trap” Literary Analysis Plot Summary: “The Rat Trap” by Selma Lagerlöf describes the life of a man who sells rat traps. The-rat trap peddler realizes that the whole world is a rat-trap. He falls into life’s rat-trap‚ starting when he stays at an old man’s house and succumbs to the temptation of stealing the man’s money. He avoids the town and wanders through the woods to escape being caught by the police. The rat-trap peddler stays at a furnace‚ where the ironmaster talks to him‚ thinking

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    By winding the spring on your mousetrap car‚ you store energy in the spring as potential energy. This stored potential energy will convert energy into kinetic energy as the mouse-trap car begins to move. But there is friction and in order to overcome friction you have to do more work. Friction converts energy into heat and sound which takes away energy from your motion‚ causing the car to stop as its energy is turned into other forms. When designing a mousetrap car‚ there are two variables that

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    improvement for your car? Explain how it could have been made better so that the car could have performed better. During its test‚ my mousetrap car curved to the right causing it to crash into a wall and stop short of its full potential. However‚ the car still traveled the the entirety of the 11 meters required for the maximum number of points. The reasons that my mousetrap car functioned as well as it did were: (1) the light and thin CD’s that I used as wheels minimized the friction between the car and

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