Innovators and inventors are often encouraged by the age-old axiom, "If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door." In 1882, before the modern spring-loaded mousetrap was ...
In 1894, William C. Hooker was awarded a patent for a mouse trap that killed a mouse with a single loaded trap upon contact. While some may argue it is more humane to trap and release a mouse versus ...