Clues About Perpetual Motion Inventor DNA

To study 'inventor DNA' unfortunately you may be limited to studying Nathan Larkin Coppedge's DNA, and those who came after him.

Part of it is education, for example, education in use of levers. Romao of Wlber Cross High School had knowledge of this type, and was able to lecture for perhaps 5 hours on levers alone.

The unique properties of Nathan Coppedge are some of the following:

* Engineers in the family (both grandfathers were physicists / engineers), one uncle was an engineer, and one uncle was an architect. His brother was a computer prodigy who designed games from age 7 or younger. Yet Nathan's childhood was basically uneventful, aside from some homework and traveling and interest in designing weapons and castles and costumes.

* Visual-Symbolic-Spatial intelligence: Nathan developed 3-d and 4-d relationships on a 2-d surface very consistently during 2002 - 2009 in a manner that was purely abstract, yet highly varied and creative, within the most efficient medium: pen-and-ink.

* Related to smart genes. Nathan's Dad was a Yale PhD and his mother was a State College Valedictorian and member of Daughters of the American Revolution.

* Cultured aesthetic sensibilities. Preferred to go to an arts-focused middle school. Mild interest in abstract art in high school. Artworks may have sold for $1 million.

* Preference for things that are mentally dependent constructs even when the substance is said to be cheap. What Nathan calls expensive tastes. A bit of an intellectual snob, placing lower value on things that do not contain philosophy. Yet hr viewed this semantically.

* Tendency towards wisdom. Family friends used to call Nathan 'wise'. He pursued philosophy for his degree rather than visual arts, seeing arts as being too physical.

* Extra intelligent factors. Nathan once wrote 36 poems in one morning. When he gave himself the task of solving a list of unsolved problems in words, he often did so in less than 24 hours. Nathan once wrote a love letter to someone who became a post-graduate researcher at Yale.

Another approach:

A Perfect Storm for Perpetual Motion