Mouse Trap Research Paper

The famous Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” has inspired many people to create mousetraps. Mousetraps are the most invented thing in America with over four thousand four hundred patents. Many mousetrap designs are created by ameture builders, and fewer than twenty five designs have ever made money. According to the article, the best mouse trap has already been built, the fundamental snap trap made by John Mast. The trap “consists simply of a three-by-one-and-a-half-inch pallet of pine upon which are stapled a fifteen-gauge coil- spring -powered “killer bar” a two-inch-long “trigger rod”, and a “bait pedal”. That trap was built in 1899, and no trap design has been better