necessity is the mother of invention not
money welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten people who insanely didn’t get
rich off their inventions
I still see so much more to be done but
what I have done already seems like
we’re just getting ready for that
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at adventures or creative types
either sold the rights to their
world-changing work for way too little
were prevented from filing a patent for
some reason or just decided not to
capitalize on their idea self-taught
gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov came up
with the prototype for his celebrated
rifle at the age of 22 number 10 John
Barry since dr. no hit theaters the same
theme has played in almost every
double-oh-seven film
but who wrote the James Bond theme Monte
Norman’s name is on the doctor no
soundtrack and he’s received royalties
since 1962 however John Berry claimed it
was him and not Norman who’s composed it
[Music]
according to Barry he was handed
Norman’s original composition of the
theme which he then rearranged and added
to supposedly Barry received 250 pounds
while Norman had collected nearly half a
million by 2001 when the case went to
court and immediately the moment I did
that I realized that this was what I was
looking for Norman won the case and to
this day is officially recognized as the
themes sole writer John Barry went on to
compose scores for 11 other Bond films
number nine Edgar Allan Poe he’s the
master of the macabre and a huge
influence on modern American literature
but Poe never experienced financial
success even Poe’s most famous poem The
Raven was no help
quoth the raven nevermore are you that
would achieved popularity during his
lifetime he saw very little recompense
from its publication as he made the
mistake of selling the poem to the
American review in 1845 for nine dollars
while the poems reputation did earn him
some publishing deals it also prompted
Howe to say this quote I am as poor now
as ever I was in my life except in Hope
which is by no means bankable no
nationally I wanted affluent that’s why
I got no money
I am Poe he died broke less than five
years later number eight John Walker
after fiddling around with several ways
to easily produce fire and transfer it
to a material like wood Walker
accidentally discovered that the missing
ingredient needed to set the chemicals
light was friction and thus the friction
match was born in 1826
I had one of those in my pocket once and
they just lit on fire just exploded
he began producing matches and selling
them for one shilling for a box of 50 so
he was urged to patent his invention and
others invented similar products not
long after Walker wanted anyone to be
able to make matches and therefore he
refused he lived the rest of his life
decently comfortable but never became
rich from his discovery number seven
Alexey Pajitnov in 1984 while working
for the research and development center
known as the Soviet Academy of Sciences
computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov
developed a video game based on
tetrominoes its goal was to create
complete lines that would then disappear
sound familiar tetris became the first
piece of entertainment software to make
its way from the USSR to the United
States and has since been named one of
the greatest games in history who is a
spurred content there is nobody who fall
in love with it but nobody hates it
however because pocket knife was a
soviet government employee
he earned no royalties from his
invention until nineteen
96 when he and Hank Rogers founded the
tetris company and the rights finally
reverted back to their rightful owner
number 6 Ron Klein verifying credit card
fraud in the 60s was slow and
unsophisticated merchants kept catalogs
of fraudulent numbers and manually
searched whenever someone used their
card to ensure the number was valid
Klein helped computerized the process
but cashier still had to manually type
in the numbers so the system could
search for them to accelerate the
process even more Kline developed
readable strips using a technology
comparable to reel-to-reel tape
recorders although he patented his
invention in 1969 IBM developed a
similar idea soon after and issued their
technology for free the company Kline
worked for all tronic systems Corp never
enforced the patent on the magnetic
stripe card so clion had to make his
money elsewhere I don’t feel that I need
any notoriety I just want to get my
message across to others that consider
the possibilities there’s a gift behind
every challenge number 5 daisuke in no
way I’m sitting in the railway station
got a ticket to my destination karaoke
has become an international phenomenon
but it’s likely most popular in its
native Japan in his youth Daisuke in no
way was involved with a band that played
backing music for random business people
that wanted to sing on stage one day he
had to miss a gig so he recorded the
musical accompaniment instead he
eventually developed a system of
machines to play the tape to music and
started renting them out to local bars
in the early 70s
however Inoue never patented and
therefore never profited from his
invention of the karaoke machine he was
however named one of Time Magazine’s
Most Influential Asians of the century
in 1999 problem number four last lobito
this newspaper editors quest for a
better pen began when he noticed how
newsprint dried faster than pen ink
unfortunately that quick drying ink was
too thick for a fountain pen so he
devised the ball socket mechanism to
keep the ink from drying inside the pen
and to evenly dispense it onto a page
and in 1943 he filed the u.s. patent two
three nine oh six three six a for a
writing instrument two years later now
said beak paid him two million dollars
for the patent however considering the
company he later founded Thicke made
over two billion euros in 2016 alone you
gotta wonder if Beto deserved more
even so ballpoint pens are still called
bureaus in some places number three
Mikhail Kalashnikov since the end of the
Cold War the cluster Cod has become the
Russian people’s greatest export a tank
commander in the Russian Red Army during
World War two Kalashnikov started
developing a new rifle while he was in
the hospital recovering from a battle
injury it took a few years in several
failed models but the Altamonte
kalashnikova was first manufactured in
1947 soon after being adopted by the
soviet army over 70 years later it’s one
of the most commonly used assault rifles
on the planet because it’s easy to use
easy to find cheap to make and best of
all reliable everybody knows what an
ak-47 is everybody anybody who’s ever
watched a decent action movie would
however the ak-47s original design was
never patented and so Kalashnikov didn’t
benefit what’s more it’s estimated that
roughly half of the ak-47s in the world
are counterfeit anyway number two James
Cameron the Terminator is Jim Cameron’s
brainchild
[Music]
he first got the idea for the series
from a dream and soon enough he was
developing an entire universe
however to get the first film made he
sacrificed a lot
Cameron sold the rights to the film to
Gale Anne Hurd for $1 with the caveat
the cheap produce and he directed unlike
other entries on this list that risky
move paid off for Cameron the Terminator
was his breakout film and a major hit
allowing him to become a well-known
filmmaker worth almost two billion
dollars and ultimately leading to an
entire franchise of wildly successful
sci-fi action films just put up your
hand and say swear I won’t kill anyone I
swear I would not kill anyone before we
unveil our number one tick here are some
honorable mentions yet these powerful
light emitters consume much less power
than today’s lights useless wouldn’t
stand any sort of a Seaway wouldn’t last
a minute first where’d it go
[Music]
number one Tim berners-lee one could
argue that the world wide web is so
large and essential that it couldn’t and
shouldn’t be copyrighted and its
inventor would agree with you
information in general is a powerful
thing the ability to communicate ability
to collaborate is a powerful thing
computer scientist Tim berners-lee
invented what we know as the world wide
web in 1989 by connecting ideas and
systems that already existed the
following year he developed the web
browser while working at CERN and by
1991 it was made available to the masses
you imagine if any of these ideas had
been patented the web would be a very
different place today berners-lee is
still dedicated to the idea of an open
and accessible web and founded the world
wide web consortium to help ensure it
stays that way the most difficult thing
that we’re not doing is we’re not
actually studying the web do you agree
with our pics check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
money welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten people who insanely didn’t get
rich off their inventions
I still see so much more to be done but
what I have done already seems like
we’re just getting ready for that
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at adventures or creative types
either sold the rights to their
world-changing work for way too little
were prevented from filing a patent for
some reason or just decided not to
capitalize on their idea self-taught
gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov came up
with the prototype for his celebrated
rifle at the age of 22 number 10 John
Barry since dr. no hit theaters the same
theme has played in almost every
double-oh-seven film
but who wrote the James Bond theme Monte
Norman’s name is on the doctor no
soundtrack and he’s received royalties
since 1962 however John Berry claimed it
was him and not Norman who’s composed it
[Music]
according to Barry he was handed
Norman’s original composition of the
theme which he then rearranged and added
to supposedly Barry received 250 pounds
while Norman had collected nearly half a
million by 2001 when the case went to
court and immediately the moment I did
that I realized that this was what I was
looking for Norman won the case and to
this day is officially recognized as the
themes sole writer John Barry went on to
compose scores for 11 other Bond films
number nine Edgar Allan Poe he’s the
master of the macabre and a huge
influence on modern American literature
but Poe never experienced financial
success even Poe’s most famous poem The
Raven was no help
quoth the raven nevermore are you that
would achieved popularity during his
lifetime he saw very little recompense
from its publication as he made the
mistake of selling the poem to the
American review in 1845 for nine dollars
while the poems reputation did earn him
some publishing deals it also prompted
Howe to say this quote I am as poor now
as ever I was in my life except in Hope
which is by no means bankable no
nationally I wanted affluent that’s why
I got no money
I am Poe he died broke less than five
years later number eight John Walker
after fiddling around with several ways
to easily produce fire and transfer it
to a material like wood Walker
accidentally discovered that the missing
ingredient needed to set the chemicals
light was friction and thus the friction
match was born in 1826
I had one of those in my pocket once and
they just lit on fire just exploded
he began producing matches and selling
them for one shilling for a box of 50 so
he was urged to patent his invention and
others invented similar products not
long after Walker wanted anyone to be
able to make matches and therefore he
refused he lived the rest of his life
decently comfortable but never became
rich from his discovery number seven
Alexey Pajitnov in 1984 while working
for the research and development center
known as the Soviet Academy of Sciences
computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov
developed a video game based on
tetrominoes its goal was to create
complete lines that would then disappear
sound familiar tetris became the first
piece of entertainment software to make
its way from the USSR to the United
States and has since been named one of
the greatest games in history who is a
spurred content there is nobody who fall
in love with it but nobody hates it
however because pocket knife was a
soviet government employee
he earned no royalties from his
invention until nineteen
96 when he and Hank Rogers founded the
tetris company and the rights finally
reverted back to their rightful owner
number 6 Ron Klein verifying credit card
fraud in the 60s was slow and
unsophisticated merchants kept catalogs
of fraudulent numbers and manually
searched whenever someone used their
card to ensure the number was valid
Klein helped computerized the process
but cashier still had to manually type
in the numbers so the system could
search for them to accelerate the
process even more Kline developed
readable strips using a technology
comparable to reel-to-reel tape
recorders although he patented his
invention in 1969 IBM developed a
similar idea soon after and issued their
technology for free the company Kline
worked for all tronic systems Corp never
enforced the patent on the magnetic
stripe card so clion had to make his
money elsewhere I don’t feel that I need
any notoriety I just want to get my
message across to others that consider
the possibilities there’s a gift behind
every challenge number 5 daisuke in no
way I’m sitting in the railway station
got a ticket to my destination karaoke
has become an international phenomenon
but it’s likely most popular in its
native Japan in his youth Daisuke in no
way was involved with a band that played
backing music for random business people
that wanted to sing on stage one day he
had to miss a gig so he recorded the
musical accompaniment instead he
eventually developed a system of
machines to play the tape to music and
started renting them out to local bars
in the early 70s
however Inoue never patented and
therefore never profited from his
invention of the karaoke machine he was
however named one of Time Magazine’s
Most Influential Asians of the century
in 1999 problem number four last lobito
this newspaper editors quest for a
better pen began when he noticed how
newsprint dried faster than pen ink
unfortunately that quick drying ink was
too thick for a fountain pen so he
devised the ball socket mechanism to
keep the ink from drying inside the pen
and to evenly dispense it onto a page
and in 1943 he filed the u.s. patent two
three nine oh six three six a for a
writing instrument two years later now
said beak paid him two million dollars
for the patent however considering the
company he later founded Thicke made
over two billion euros in 2016 alone you
gotta wonder if Beto deserved more
even so ballpoint pens are still called
bureaus in some places number three
Mikhail Kalashnikov since the end of the
Cold War the cluster Cod has become the
Russian people’s greatest export a tank
commander in the Russian Red Army during
World War two Kalashnikov started
developing a new rifle while he was in
the hospital recovering from a battle
injury it took a few years in several
failed models but the Altamonte
kalashnikova was first manufactured in
1947 soon after being adopted by the
soviet army over 70 years later it’s one
of the most commonly used assault rifles
on the planet because it’s easy to use
easy to find cheap to make and best of
all reliable everybody knows what an
ak-47 is everybody anybody who’s ever
watched a decent action movie would
however the ak-47s original design was
never patented and so Kalashnikov didn’t
benefit what’s more it’s estimated that
roughly half of the ak-47s in the world
are counterfeit anyway number two James
Cameron the Terminator is Jim Cameron’s
brainchild
[Music]
he first got the idea for the series
from a dream and soon enough he was
developing an entire universe
however to get the first film made he
sacrificed a lot
Cameron sold the rights to the film to
Gale Anne Hurd for $1 with the caveat
the cheap produce and he directed unlike
other entries on this list that risky
move paid off for Cameron the Terminator
was his breakout film and a major hit
allowing him to become a well-known
filmmaker worth almost two billion
dollars and ultimately leading to an
entire franchise of wildly successful
sci-fi action films just put up your
hand and say swear I won’t kill anyone I
swear I would not kill anyone before we
unveil our number one tick here are some
honorable mentions yet these powerful
light emitters consume much less power
than today’s lights useless wouldn’t
stand any sort of a Seaway wouldn’t last
a minute first where’d it go
[Music]
number one Tim berners-lee one could
argue that the world wide web is so
large and essential that it couldn’t and
shouldn’t be copyrighted and its
inventor would agree with you
information in general is a powerful
thing the ability to communicate ability
to collaborate is a powerful thing
computer scientist Tim berners-lee
invented what we know as the world wide
web in 1989 by connecting ideas and
systems that already existed the
following year he developed the web
browser while working at CERN and by
1991 it was made available to the masses
you imagine if any of these ideas had
been patented the web would be a very
different place today berners-lee is
still dedicated to the idea of an open
and accessible web and founded the world
wide web consortium to help ensure it
stays that way the most difficult thing
that we’re not doing is we’re not
actually studying the web do you agree
with our pics check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
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