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In the context of technology development, ‘invention’ may be seen as creation of a hitherto unknown concept, design, material, or process etc., through the all-important one percent inspiration ‘gifted’ to the inventor (seeker of answers) by evolutionary processes of Nature, and who subsequently by his/her own ninetynine percent ‘perspiration’, successfully achieves the end result. Inventors are rare persons, born too few and far between, although their inventions can have tremendous impact on society and mankind.
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Innovation (Wikipedia) is the process of making changes to something established by introducing something better and, as a consequence, new.
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‘One small step for Indian PHWR!’ (with due apologies to Mr. Neil Armstrong http://www.nasa.gov/mission/pages/apollo/apollo11/audio.html).
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‘Self-energising’ refers to the capability of the sealing element to automatically generate increasing gasket seating force with increasing pressure of the fluid being sealed, thereby ensuring that when fluid pressure increases, leakage past the sealing surface does not increase.
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Sanatkumar, A. (2020). Necessity is the Mother of Innovation—An Example. In: Ghosh, P. (eds) The Mind of an Engineer: Volume 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1330-5_38
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