<p><img title="" alt="" align="right" src="http://officeimg.vo.msecnd.net/en-us/images/MH900426646.jpg"></p> <p>August is <a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/eventsconventions/a/inventors_month.htm">National Inventors Month</a>,&nbsp; a time when we celebrate invention and creativity. The tradition began in 1998 when&nbsp; the <a href="http://www.uiausa.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=79775&amp;orgId=uia">United Inventors Association of the USA</a> (UIA-USA), the <a href="http://www.aas-world.org/">Academy of Applied Science</a>, and <a href="http://www.inventorsdigest.com/">Inventors' Digest</a> magazine came together to honor our country's creators.&nbsp; </p> <p><strong>Finding the bright light</strong></p> <p>Lots of us see things that we would like to change or problems we would like to solve.&nbsp; Inventors have the ability to take that idea and bring it to life.&nbsp; </p> <p><strong>I love hanging out with inventors</strong></p> <p>My love of invention and passion for innovation just may be genetic. Both of my grandfathers were inventors - Grandpa Bill focused his creativity on his trade as a brew master (here is a link I found to <a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2076422.pdf">one of his patents from 1937</a>) while Grandpa Leo was an engineer and focused on mechanical devices.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Early in my career I had the opportunity to spend six years in the Silicon Valley and work with some brilliant inventors as the re-invented the way we work with data, created portable computers - wow can you imagine -&nbsp; and dreamed up things that today we take for granted.</p> <p><strong>Vision Creates Energy</strong></p> <p>What I learned at Grandpa's knee and later in the emerging world of technology is that an inventor's vision creates energy.&nbsp; In the inventors I know, it is so charged that you can feel it.&nbsp; So in honor of National Inventor's Month I have asked some of them for permission to tell their stories.&nbsp; I hope you will follow along, it's bound to be enlightening.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks for stopping by.&nbsp; Stay Tuned...</p> <p>Joan Koerber-Walker</p> <div style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:325259de-2a88-4cf0-9373-7dbe1cc44c81" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Joan%20Koerber-Walker" rel="tag">Joan Koerber-Walker</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/CorePurpose" rel="tag">CorePurpose</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Inventors" rel="tag">Inventors</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Inventions" rel="tag">Inventions</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/National%20Inventors%20Week" rel="tag">National Inventors Week</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/innovation" rel="tag">innovation</a></div>