Vanity plates are everywhere. They can stand for a name, a simple word, or have a special meaning. The Quincy Herald-Whig recently took a look at some great inventors from our past and what vanity plates would best suit them. What would your license plate say?
Thomas Edison set an American record that might never be broken with his 1,093 patents. His plates, if he chose to brag, might be: IM NBR 1.
Bette Nesmith, inventor of liquid paper correction fluid and mother of Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith, could drive around in a car with plates that read: WHITEOUT.
Samuel Morse, of Morse code fame, would fit right in with plates that read: DTSNDSHS.
The founder of the Nobel prizes, Alfred Nobel, invented dynamite and was sometimes referred to as, “The Merchant of Death,” so he probably wouldn’t be spotted with plates that read: KABLUEY.
Photo by Will Hart
