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The Inventor of the mousetrap
The inventor of the mousetrap, James Henry Atkinson, he was born in 1849 and died in 1942. He also made other inventions that were successful. -
The materials of the mousetrap
The first mousetrap materials is basic. A flat wooden base, some wires fastenings, some wire fastenings, a bait layer, and some springs systems that will trigger its prey. -
The life of the inventor
James Henry Atkinson was married in 1872 to Fanny Maria Rayner. In 1911, he sold his "Little Nipper" for 1,000 Pounds to Protector Brothers. Then his wife died and now married again to Leah Elizabeth Beales. -
The Mouse Trap Car
The Mouse Trap Car is a rectangular box made out of wood, added with that it is also has a trap system where the mouse gets in and never gets out that got lured into by a bait. -
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Improvements of the mousetraps
So far from our history of our killers of mouses, it has been improving a lot. Meaning that it has a better base of it, a better trigger system, a better "snap", and further more, different types of mouse killing items are here to this day. -
Who uses them?
Basically everyone uses the mousetraps, to catch and kill mouse. We also used them to get them out of our little house holes, they can carry LCMV, a virus, and other rodents such as hamsters can be infected from a mice that has LCMV. To this day. -
Facts about the mousetraps
Some fact about the mousetraps are unknown, if we didn't know. Some facts about the mousetraps is that it took its title from a play performed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Another fact about it is that from 1870-1996 more than 4,400 US patents were issued for mousetraps. Only about 20 made money.
