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- Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set – Today in History: February 15. On February 15, 1884, the New Haven inventor of the Erector Set, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, was born. A magician, athlete, and savvy businessman, Gilbert enrolled in medical school at Yale in 1904 to pursue a career as a physical education director.
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Pages From History: The Massage Chair - Massage Magazine The original High Touch Massage Chair, which debuted in 1986, was created by David Palmer and manufactured by Living Earth Crafts. The photo shows the chair in its folded-up position, which allows it to be carried much like a suitcase, complete with handle and carrying strap.
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Razor In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette, with the assistance of William Nickerson, patented a new variation of safety razor with disposable blades. Gillette realized that a profit could be made by selling an inexpensive razor with disposable blades.
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La-Z-Boy Furniture La-Z Boy Furniture made their first recliner in 1928 and has since then expanded their repertoire of home furnishings to include attractive and expertly crafted seating options.
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THE LAST WORD THE HUMBLE DARRELL SURVEY IS GOSPEL TO THE GOLF INDUSTRY The Darrell Survey is the authority, says Gary Adams, who popularized the metal wood and created the equipment manufacturing companies Taylor Made and Founders Club.
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Fueling Up and Parking in Europe Fuel prices are listed by the liter (about a quart, four to a gallon). As in the US, most cars take unleaded, but diesel is widely in use. In many countries, the pumps are color-coded to help you find the right kind of gas.
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Smoke detector History of the automatic fire alarm and smoke detection. The first automatic electric fire alarm was invented in 1890 by Francis Robbins Upton. Upton was an associate of Thomas Edison. In the late 1930s, Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger tried to invent a sensor for poison gas.
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What Did Henry Bessemer Invent? Bessemer's career as an inventor began when he invented a forgery-proof technology that prevented the falsification of the official authorization stamp of the British government. The stamp was placed on numerous documents, including deeds.
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Philo Farnsworth Philo Taylor Farnsworth was the American inventor of television. He is perhaps best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device, the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Tel
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Inventions The automatic retractable seat belt (for automobiles) was first patented in 1963 by University of Minnesota Professor James J. Ryan. Zubaz, the loud, loose trousers made specifically for bodybuilders, were invented by Minneapolis gym owners Dan Stock and Bob Truax in 1991.
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The First Skyscrapers (And How They Became Possible) While “the Bessemer process” kept Bessemer’s name well-known long after his death, lesser known today is the man who actually employed that process to innovate the first skyscraper: George A. Fuller (1851-1900). Fuller had been working on trying to solve the problems of the load bearing capacities of tall buildings.
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- Background The Progressive Movement (1901-1917) was initiated as a response to political and corporate abuses at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
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Police Technology and Forensic Science An earlier and less successful lie detector or polygraph machine was invented by James Mackenzie in 1902. However, the modern polygraph machine was invented by John Larson in 1921. John Larson, a University of California medical student, invented the modern lie detector (polygraph) in 1921. Used in police interrogation and investigation since 1924, the lie detector is still controversial among psychologists, and is not always judicially acceptable.
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History of the Oven From Cast Iron to Electric Some historians credit, Canadian Thomas Ahearn with inventing the first electric oven in 1882. Thomas Ahearn and his business partner Warren Y. Soper owned the Chaudiere Electric Light and Power Company of Ottawa. However, the Ahearn oven was only put into service in 1892, in the Windsor Hotel of Ottawa.
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CF-25 cf-25 Case Forming for the Real World The CF-25 industrial grade, high-performance carton erector machine from Little David is designed to form and bottom-seal corrugated cases at speeds up to 15 cases per minute.
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Homo erectus One of the first specimens identified as Homo erectus was the Java Man fossil discovered in 1891. Orginally named Pithecanthropus erectus, it was not recognised as a close human relative at first, as old theories held that our ancestors would have had human brains and ape-like bodies, rather than the converse.Scientific name: Homo erectus.f Homo erectus and Homo ergaster are identified as separate species, Homo erectus would be a sibling rather than a true ancestor. Homo erectus was a successful, long-lived species that migrated out of Africa.
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- Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor whose steelmaking process established the town of Sheffield as a major manufacturing centre.essemer's father, Anthony, was born in London, but moved to Paris when he was 21 years old. He was an inventor who, while engaged by the Paris Mint, made a machine for making medallions that could produce steel dies from a larger model.
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Post Drivers How do we know? Because we invented and patented the world's first powered post driver more than a half century ago. While Shaver is the only choice for powerful, high-performance post drivers, we give you a choice of drivers to fit your operation. Choose between skid steer loader-mounted drivers or tractor-mounted models. On tractor-mounted models, you have a choice between front- or rear-mounted models.
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Anatomy of the Male Reproductive System Semen is the fluid produced by males for sexual reproduction and is ejaculated out of the body during sexual intercourse. Semen contains sperm, the male reproductive gametes, along with a number of chemicals suspended in a liquid medium.
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- The first electric razor was patented in 1928 by the American manufacturer Col. Jacob Schick. The Remington Rand Corporation developed the electric razor further, first producing the Remington brand of razor in 1937.
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Dental braces In America in the early 1900s, Edward H. Angle devised the first simple classification system for malocclusions, which is still used today (Class I, Class II, and so on). His classification system was a way for dentists to describe how crooked teeth are, what way teeth are pointing, and how teeth fit together.
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Andrew Beard Beard's attempts to perfect and market his inventions were supported by several Birmingham investors. His several patents for improved couplings were approved between 1897 and 1905. He founded the Beard Automatic Coupler Company and later sold the rights to the coupler to a New York company for $50,000.
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7 Celebrities Who Invented Amazing Things on the Side Neil Young Improved the Model Train. Regarded as one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time (or a high-pitched grandpa who looks like a homeless man, depending on your tastes), Neil Young is up there with Led Zeppelin in terms of influence and prominence in your parents' record collection.
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- LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America. © copyright 2013 by Jeffrey Stanton. Amusement park and roller coaster historians such as William Mangels, Robert Cartmell, and others have regaled LaMarcus Thompson as the father of the roller coaster.hile there are a number of early roller coaster patents, both switchback and circular, between 1872 and 1886, the mystery is if any were actually built by their inventors and where. The first of the patents U.S. # 128,674 for an Improvement of Inclined Railways, was awarded to John G. Taylor of Baltimore in 1872.
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- Alessandro Volta-Example of Voltic Pile. Photograph courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. In 1800, Alessandro Volta of Italy built the voltaic pile and discovered the first practical method of generating electricity.
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La-Z-Boy Furniture La-Z-Boy Furniture. La-Z Boy Furniture made their first recliner in 1928 and has since then expanded their repertoire of home furnishings to include attractive and expertly crafted seating options.