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Benjamin Franklin Invents Swimming Fin An avid swimmer, Franklin was drawn to water at a young age and consistently promoted the healthy benefits of the exercise in his later writings. At the ripe old age of 11 he invented a pair of fins that, unlike today's modern flippers, were strapped to the swimmer's hands to help make each stroke more efficient. His contributions to the sport led to his posthumous induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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6 Things Inspired by Einstein To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis (that's what he called his most productive year ever), Helen Czerski, a Cambridge University physicist and BMX rider Ben Wallace collaborated to create a nifty bike trick dubbed the Einstein Flip:
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- It is time for us to leverage that talent, energy, and creativity to make a difference... Invention Inventor Invention Inventor Biscuit Cutter A.P. Ashbourne Super Soaker Lonnie Johnson Folding Bed L.C. Bailey Bicycle Frame Issac R. Johnson Coin Changer James A. Bauer Space Shuttle Retrieval Arm Wm.
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Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions Created primarily by Coca-Cola and Deka Research and Development, the New Hampshire company founded by inventor Dean Kamen, the container is meant to be a kind of “downtown in a box”: a web-connected bodega-cum-community center that can be dropped into underdeveloped villages all over the world.
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Designer who invented 'foldable' shoes during the financial crisis now turns over Â£1m Designer who invented 'foldable' shoes during the financial crisis now turns over £1m Janan Leo's shoes are a big hit with celebrities including Pippa Middleton and Dame Helen Mirren Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS
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- George Eastman invented “Roll Film” George Eastman was a renowned American inventor, businessman and founder of the Eastman Kodak company. He was born in 1854 in New York to George and Maria Eastman. His father died in 1862, when Eastman was 8 years old and one of his sisters died when he was 16.
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Biro pen, invented by Laszlo Biro, turns 70 Arguably the most important invention for the written word since the printing press, the humble biro pen is 70 years old. By John Bingham. 7:50PM BST 15 Jun 2008. Invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro, the simple plastic ballpoint, owes its existence at least in part to the RAF.Britain's airmen placed the first ever bulk orders for the implement during the Second World War.orking with his brother George, a chemist, he adapted the ink to make it thin enough to work in a ballpoint pen. In the end the pair came up with the biro's distinctive nib, containing a tiny ball bearing which rolls as the pen moves.
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- Pratley's famous glue is the only South African invention that has been to the moon. In 1969 the putty was used to hold bits of the Apollo XI mission's Eagle landing craft together. Pratley died in 1983 and today the company is run by his son, Kim.peed gun. The South African-made speed gun, developed by Somerset West inventor Henri Johnson, was formally launched at The Oval in England during the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Generally referred to as a speed gun, Johnson's gizmo is sold in cricketing countries and in the US and Europe.
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) Fascinating facts about the invention. of JELL-O by Pearl B. Wait in 1897. In 1897 Pearl B. Wait was a cough syrup manufacturer in Le-Roy, New York, whose business was not going very well. So he decided to give up the cough syrup business and branch out into something new.
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Ichthyosaur Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia ('fish flippers' – a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, although the term is now used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria).
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- TMS: Transactions on Mathematical Software: TMS: TIGER Map Service (US Census Bureau) TMS: Transmission Management System (networking) TMS: Transmission Measuring Set: TMS: Time-shared Monitor System (also seen as TSMS) TMS: Traffic Matrix Statistics (Cisco) TMS: Time Multiplier Setting (Power System Protection Systems) TMS: Technical & Management Support: TMS
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- We even called ourselves Los Dos Traviesos, Spanish for the comic strip characters, The Katzenjammer Kids. In 1897, The Katzenjammer Kids,'' the pioneering comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks, made its debut in the New York Journal.
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Who Was Murphy and Why Is There a Bed Named After Him? Murphy’s innovation was at the bed’s point of folding. Using an old closet doorjamb and some door hinges, he built a pivot that allowed the bed to attach to a wall and fold up against it for easy storage. The son of a gold-seeking 49er, Murphy worked a few different jobs around California before he came up with his invention.
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- Flipper is an exceedingly pleasant, modest picture about a boy and his dolphin, and features easygoing, natural performances from Luke Halpin, as the boy, and Chuck Connors, as his rugged, seafaring father. The film is the first in the franchise that led eventually to a popular TV show.
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Are Whales Smarter Than We Are? One wonders how different life on earth might have been if humans, big brains and all, had flippers instead of hands -- and, perhaps, a lot more glia. R. Douglas Fields, who researches glia in his day job, frequently writes on neuroscience for Scientific American and Scientific American Mind.
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Flipper Teeth For Adults And Kids Flipper teeth are made up of acrylic resin, the same material which is used in the manufacture of standard full dentures. This material is preferred because it is strong. It is cosmetically appealing because it closely resembles the natural color of the tooth.
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Robert Adler: Making Life Safe for Couch Potatoes Adler is best remembered as the co-inventor of the TV remote control, the clicker, an invention for which he and Eugene Polley were awarded an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Dr. Adler didn't believe the remote control represented his most significant contribution to television technology.
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What Are Dental Flippers? Wearing a Dental Flipper. Traditional flippers are made of acrylic, with the replacement tooth or teeth set into a rigid base. They are rather brittle, and can break easily if they are dropped or aren’t handled correctly.
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) Fascinating facts about the invention of the Potato Chips by George Crum in 1853.
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Flipkart Flipkart is an e-commerce company founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal. It is a Singaporean company which operates in India, where it is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name DigiFlip with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags.
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- In 1966 Sherman Poppen of Muskegon Michigan fixed two skis together and added rope for his young daughters to ride down the local dune hills and history was made. Poppen's inventive wife came up with the name snurfer by combining the words snow and surfer.
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What is the unladen weight of a 1998 dodge durango? What is the unladen weight of a 2000 Dodge Durango? The unladen weight of a 2000 Dodge Durango is 4,360 pounds, and the  gross weight is 6,050 pounds. This car gets 12 miles per gallon in  the city, and 17 miles per gallon on… the highway.
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Flipkart Flipkart is an electronic commerce company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (no relation). The company is registered in Singapore. Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name DigiFlip with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags. As of April 2017, the company was valued at $11.6 billion.
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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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In the Summertime In 1995, Jamaican-American rapper Shaggy covered the song, and released it as the lead single from his third studio album, Boombastic. A year after its release, the song was re-recorded and released specifically for the film Flipper.
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- . Henry O. Flipper became the first black officer in the United States Military Service. Flipper was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and was assigned to frontier duty with the all black Tenth United States Cavalry at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (Indian Territory).