Young Sam Houghton patented broom

World Mirror
Written by team josh
Friday, 18 April 2008
Five-year-old Sam Houghton has been named Britain's youngest inventor after patenting a new improved Broom. The boy from Buxton, Derbyshire, had the brainwave while watching his father sweep up garden leaves. He said, my dad swapped between two brushes - one to clear up larger leaves and twigs and the other to catch finer debris. So he conceptulised the ideo of strapping two brooms together with a large rubber band. The result was the "Improved Broom" which can be flipped around for different jobs. Sam, who was only three at the time, has now been granted an official patent for his invention. He is thought to be the youngest Briton yet to hold one. He said he was inspired by his TV heroes Wallace & Gromit, the animated characters who get into all sorts of trouble with Wallace's outlandish inventions. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 302 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Website Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters
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