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2. Mousetrap - Wikipedia

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   If the mouse attempts to take the bait, the coin is displaced and the glass traps the mouse. [14] Another method of live trapping, the bucket trap , is to make a half-oval shaped tunnel with a toilet paper roll, put bait on one end of the roll, place the roll on a counter or table with the baited end sticking out over the edge, and put a deep ...

3. Gun-powered mousetrap - Wikipedia

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   The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design. [4]

4. James Henry Atkinson - Wikipedia

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   James Henry Atkinson (c. 1849–1942) was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. [1] He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, [2] [3] but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.

5. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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   In May 1882, a month after his death, the following quotation was attributed (with no date or source) to Emerson by The Cincinnati Enquirer under the heading "The Value of Good Work": If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will ...

6. The Mouse Trap (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Mouse Trap is a 2024 Canadian slasher film [1] [2] directed, shot and edited by Jamie Bailey and written by Simon Phillips. It is a horror reimagining of Walt Disney's 1928 animated short film Steamboat Willie, the first appearance of Mickey Mouse. The film stars Phillips as a hypnotized manager masked as Mickey, who traps and terrorizes a ...

7. Mouse Trap (1986 video game) - Wikipedia

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   Mouse Trap is a platform game written by Dave Mann (using the pseudonym Chris Robson) and published by Tynesoft in 1986 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers. [1] One year later the game was released for the Atari 8-bit computers , [ 2 ] Atari ST , Amiga , and Commodore 64 .

8. Trapping - Wikipedia

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   These include traps with offset jaws and lamination, which decrease pressure on the animals' legs, and padded jaws with rubber inserts, which reduce animal injuries. [21] Manufacturers of traps designed to work only on raccoons are referred to as dog-proof. These traps are small, and rely on the raccoon's grasping nature to trigger the trap. [22]

9. Sherman trap - Wikipedia

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   The Sherman trap is a box-style animal trap designed for the live capture of small mammals. It was invented by Dr. H. B. Sherman in the 1920s and became commercially available in 1955. Since that time, the Sherman trap has been used extensively by researchers in the biological sciences for capturing animals such as mice, voles, shrews, and ...