Last year, I wrote about Thomas Edison and National Inventors' Day in a blog post here on Securing Innovation, the corporate blog of IP.com Inc.

Again, this year, I made a pilgrimage to the Schenectady Museum, the virtual shrine to all things Edison and General Electric.  It's amazing all the good things brought to life by GE and its innovative scientists and engineers. From something as silly as, well, Silly Putty, to something as important as the electric automobile.

Early electric cars like that developed with a patent by George Selden and early modern electric automobiles like the GE-100 electric vehicle prototype on display at the Schenectady Museum.

It's been over thirty years since this prototype was shown to Congress. After all these years, what I wanna know is, where's my Tesla?