I have a great respect for inventors. Above all I deeply respect independent inventors ; I call them "natural born inventors", because they always have a high intuition and cleverness, and these characteristics may be seen as natural. Actually these people are always passionate about their professional, technical activity, and work really hard. Through hard working and passion they gather such a profound knowledge and experience of their matter that they become real masters, who are then able to invent and to innovate along their career.
Arnaud, an excellent friend of mine, economist, seasoned sculptor, and passionate about arts, introduced me some years ago to such a natural born inventor, namely Jean-Claude Novaro. I was very lucky to see him glassblowing one morning.
These technical solutions are kept secret.
By the way, there are three ways to protect an invention :
* to keep the secret
* to obtain a patent
* to publish a part (sufficiently in order to impede its patenting by somebody else, and insufficiently so as to make copies very difficult)
Arnaud, an excellent friend of mine, economist, seasoned sculptor, and passionate about arts, introduced me some years ago to such a natural born inventor, namely Jean-Claude Novaro. I was very lucky to see him glassblowing one morning.
Jean-Claude Novaro is a worldwide known glassworks artist living and working on the French Riviera. As explained on his gallery's website (http://www.galerie-novaro.fr/novaro_english.html), he was taught by a great master and further pursued his apprenticeship by self-searching and self-experimenting. This is the mark of great inventors, innovators, masters and artists : they have never finished experimenting and learning. They constantly evolve.
He told me about two great technical innovations which he introduced in the world of artistic glassworks, and which allow him to enhance his artistic power :
* a way to introduce thin gold films into his glassworks (see example below) : the problem to solve was that at the glass working and blowing temperature, gold melts and therefore cannot be introduced
* a way to make so that glassworks generate phosphorescent light in the darkness, after having been exposed to daylight (see example below)
By the way, there are three ways to protect an invention :
* to keep the secret
* to obtain a patent
* to publish a part (sufficiently in order to impede its patenting by somebody else, and insufficiently so as to make copies very difficult)
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