An inventor seeks to create a new product that serves a specific need and fulfills a role that other products do not. Sometimes an inventor comes up with a wholly new idea, but more often inventions are simply improvements on an older design. With a little imagination and creativity , an old idea can suddenly become something new. 

However, creating a new invention means much more than having a brilliant idea. A good designer follows the design process: identifying the challenge, researching and brainstorming ideas , designing a solution, testing and evaluating the ideas, and finally building the product. Designers also use science, math, technology, and engineering to design a tool that satisfies the need they identified. 

Anyone can be an inventor --even kids! For example, Chester Greenwood was just fifteen years old when he invented a product that changed his life. In fact, his idea was so good that his invention supported him for the rest of his life. You may not know his name, but you probably know his invention --earmuffs ! 

The inspiration for his earmuff design came to Chester when he was ice-skating. His ears were cold, and he decided to find a way to keep them warm. With the help of his grandmother, he made a new product to protect his ears and at the age of eighteen, Chester patented his earmuff design. 

Many other famous inventors started young as well. Margaret Knight --the inventor of the flat-bottomed brown paper bag --is said to have created a safety device for textile looms when she was just twelve years old. Another example is Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in history, who applied for his first patent when he was just twenty-one years old. Over the course of his life, Thomas Edison patented a total of 1,093 inventions! QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the article about?
2. What is the main subject of the passage?
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Q2:
1. Can children become inventors?
2. Is it possible not to be an adult and invent something?
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Q3:
1. Does the article give an example of a child inventor?
2. Does the passage mention someone who invented something as a kid?
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Q4:
1. How old was Chester Greenwood?
2. What was the kid inventor's age?
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Q5:
1. Who was the child inventor?
2. Who invented something in their youth?
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Q6:
1. What did Chester Greenwood create?
2. What was Chester Greenwood's invention?
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Q7:
1. Where did Chester Greenwood get the idea for earmuffs?
2. What inspired Chester Greenwood to create earmuffs?
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Q8:
1. Is it more common for an invention to be a brand new idea than to be an improvement?
2. Do inventions tend to be completely new innovations as opposed to refinements of something that already exists?
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Q9:
1. Whose number of patents was over 1000?
2. Who had patented more than 1000 things?
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Q10:
1. Was Thomas Edison considered one of the worst inventors of all time?
2. Did people find Thomas Edison to be one of the least impressive inventors ever?
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