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Milton Bradley Biography (Inventor/Entrepreneur) | Infoplease.com - 1 views

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      The very first board game was the, The Checkered Game of Life
  • Board game pioneer who invented The Game of Life
  • American draftsman and lithographer Milton Bradley founded the Milton Bradley Company, famous makers of family board games such as The Game of Life, CandyLand and Twister. Raised in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Bradley attended Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School from 1854 to 1856. He then worked as a draftsman for the Wason Car Works, manufacturers of railcars, until 1860, when he founded a lithography business in Springfield, Massachusetts. His initial success with a lithograph of clean-shaven presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln was dashed after Lincoln grew his famous beard, but Bradley moved on with a board game called The Checkered Game of Life. Now called The Game of Life, it is part of a Milton Bradley catalog that includes Yahtzee, Connect 4, Chutes and Ladders, Mouse Trap, Operation and Big Ben jigsaw puzzles. Mr. Bradley was also an advocate of kindergarten programs and early art education, and for many years his company manufactured materials and published books for childhood education. Bradley himself published several books in the field, including Color in Kindergarten (1893) and Water Colors in the Schoolroom (1900).
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  • tra credit: The Milton Bradley Company was acquired by Hasbro, Inc. in 1984... In 1881 Bradley was awarded a patent for a one-armed paper cutting machine... During the last years of his life the press sometimes referred to Bradley as "the Edison of Kindergarten"... Milton Bradley is also the name of a right fielder who plays professional baseball (his full name is MIlton Obelle Bradley, Jr.).
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      Max N. on 10 Jan 14
       
      American draftsman and lithographer Milton Bradley founded the Milton Bradley Company, famous makers of family board games such as The Game of Life, CandyLand and Twister. Read more: Milton Bradley Biography (Inventor/Entrepreneur) | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/miltonbradley.html#ixzz2q1gIjdbN
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    you stole my pic
Kyler Nunley

Milton Bradley Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com - 0 views

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  • Bradley printed and personally sold a new parlour game, The Checkered Game of Life, which became so profitable that he formed Milton Bradley and Company (1864) to print games and game manuals
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      Kyler Nunley on 17 Jan 14
       
      lots of back story
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    this isn't all that great but has a few bits of good information about his career in board game making
  • Kyler Nunley on 17 Jan 14
     
    lots of back story  
savannah krantz

Max Factor - Biography on Bio. - 0 views

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max factor inventor biography

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      great info on max factor and how his story began.
  • His most notable clients were Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, all of whom became regular visitors at his salons.
  • In 1918, he developed his 'colour harmony' face powder range, which allowed him to create make up for each individual based on their skin tones, due to the wide range of shades on offer.
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  • Creating false eyelashes, the eyebrow pencil, lip gloss, and pancake make up, Factor created a whole new language for screen cosmetics.
  • He died on 30 August 1938 at the age of 59.
  • His son Frank took the name Max Factor JR and continued to be involved with the company until the 1970s, seeing the company create make up shades for US Marines during the second world war, offer male products such as shampoo and aftershave and launch its first female fragrance in 1955.
  • In the 1970s, the third generation of Factors rose to senior positions but wanted to focus on their own interests, leading the firm to first be bought by Revlon and then Proctor & Gamble in 1991.
  • Credited as the father of modern make up
  • It was in 1927 that Max Factor introduced his first cosmetics to be sold to non-theatrical consumers.
  • Another key development in the make up world was the invention of waterproof mascara for the film 'Mare Nostrum' in 1926.
  • By the 1920s, Max's sons were heavily involved in the business with Davis working as general manager and Frank helping his father to develop new products.
  • As his local fame spread, actors from the emerging film industry also came to Max for make-up advice.
  • Max Factor travelled to the United Sates in 1902 and took his family to the St. Louis World's Fair.
  • They never returned.
  • Thus, the motion picture industry, then beginning in Hollywood, beckoned. He settled in Los Angeles with his family in 1909 and got a job with the Pantages Theatre.
  • By 1914, he was perfecting make up for the movies.
  • He formed flexible greasepaint, which was the first make up created for film.
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    some information about him
De Anna Jo Powell

Harry Wesley Coover Journal Of Life Memorial Website, Biography, Photos, Facts, Life Story - 0 views

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  • Harry Wesley Coover, Jr
  • inventor of Eastman 910, commonly known as Super Glue.
  • born in Newark, Delaware
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  • received
  • Bachelor of Science from Hobart College before earning his Master of Science and Ph. D. from Cornell University.
  • Eastman Kodak from 1944–1973
  • Vice President of the company from 1973-1984.
  • 1942, while searching for materials to make clear plastic gun sights, Coover and his team at Eastman Kodak first worked with cyanoacrylates, rejecting them as too sticky.
  • Nine years later,
  • 1958, the adhesive, marketed by Kodak as Super Glue, was introduced for sale.
  • overseeing Kodak chemists investigating heat-resistant polymers for jet canopies when cyanoacrylates were once again tested and proved too sticky.
  • cyanoacrylate is an acrylic resin which rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions), forming long, strong chains, joining the bonded surfaces together.
  • Cyanoacrylate is used as a forensic tool to capture latent fingerprints on non-porous surfaces like glass, plastic, etc.
  • Chemical structure of methyl cyanoacrylate, the basis of Superglue
  • Coover was also the first to recognize and patent cyanoacrylates as a tissue adhesive.
  • Vietnam War to temporarily patch the internal organs of injured soldiers until conventional surgery could be performed,
  • 460 patents, and Super Glue was just one of his many discoveries
  • Implemented at Kodak, programmed innovation resulted in the introduction of 320 new products and sales growth from $1.8 billion to $2.5 billion.
  • Coover received the Southern Chemist Man of the Year Award for his outstanding accomplishments in individual innovation and creativity.
  • 2004,
  • inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
  • He also held the
  • He also held the
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership
  • Chemical Research Management,
  • Maurice Holland Award
  • medalist for the Industrial Research Institute
  • natural causes
  • Kingsport, Tennessee
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      Good videos
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      A few great pictures
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      A lot of good information over Harry Coover, the invention, and the science behind it.
  • Delaware
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    This is by far one of the best sights I have found
Jessi Bennett

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brandenberger biography cellophane inventor history

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  • Jacques E. BrandenbergerAKA Jacques Edwin BrandenbergerBorn: 19-Oct-1872Birthplace: Zurich, SwitzerlandDied: 13-Jul-1954Location of death: Zurich, SwitzerlandCause of death: unspecifiedGender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteOccupation: Chemist
  • Jacques E. Brandenberger invented cellophane in 1908, made from wood cellulose and originally intended as a coating to make cloth more resistant to staining. After several years of further research and, refinements, and construction of a machine to make the thin, transparent film, he began production of cellophane in 1920
  • Daughter: Irma Marthe Brandenberger
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  • University: PhD Chemistry, University of Berne (1895)    National Inventors Hall of Fame 2006
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    Jacques Brandenberger biography
Katie Gatliff

Milton Bradley Biography - 0 views

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  • visited a friend who challenged him to a game
  • Bradley was inspired with a new idea—he would invent a game
  • games were not Bradley's only interest. In 1869, Bradley published America's first book on kindergartens, Paradise of Childhood, by Friedrich Froebel.
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  • By 1861, Bradley had sold more than 45,000 copies of his game. He formed Milton Bradley and Company in 1864 to print other games and game manuals
  • In 1911, Milton Bradley died, but the business he started continued to grow and prosper.
  • In 1880, Bradley expanded his business and began making jigsaw puzzles.
  • printing a series of kindergarten manuals, newsletters, and children's books, Bradley wrote and published four books on teaching color to kids, including Colour in the Kindergarten (1893).
  • In 1860, he set up Massachusetts' first color lithography shop in Springfield. One of his lithographs, a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.
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    Milton bradley game career
Morgan Pearson

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NIls Bohlin Biography

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    Nils Bohlin biography.
triston1

Biography in Context - Document - 0 views

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    lewis waterman biography
Joshua Archer

Victor Mills - 0 views

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victor mills Pamper Proctor Gamble inventor

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    Here is a little biography of the man who created Pampers (he worked for Proctor and Gamble)
Nathanael Nix

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cell phone history inventor martin cooper MartinCooper cellphone-facts

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  • Martin Cooper is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, an inventor, entrepreneur and executive. He has had been a contributor to the technology of personal wireless communications for over 50 years He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the first cellular telephone call.
  • Cooper was a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy, a division manager and head of R&D for Motorola during a  29 year tenure. As an entrepreneur he has started a number of businesses including co-founding GreatCall, Inc., maker of the Jitterbug phone and service and ArrayComm, the world leader in smart antenna technology.
  • Prize: DraperYear: 2013Citation: Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good biography about Martin Cooper, It has some pretty good information in it.
Nathanael Nix

Martin Cooper, Father of the Cellular Phone | High Tech History - 0 views

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  • Martin Cooper, who turns 82 on December 26th, is an electrical engineer – having gained his Master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957.
  • Cooper’s inspiration for undertaking the project was the Star Trek television series, in which a small, hand-held ”communicator” device was used very much in the manner of a portable phone.
  • As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973 there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter – probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.
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  • Interestingly, the first person he called was Joel Engel, his chief rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs, to tell him he was calling on a portable phone.
  • The original phone weighed a gargantuan 30 ounces, and was referred to as the “Brick.”
  • With nearly four decades of success in the telecommunications industry, Cooper’s guiding philosophy is to look to its bright future: It’s very exciting to be a part of a movement toward making broadband available to people with the same freedom to be anywhere that they have for voice communications today. People rely heavily on the Internet for their work, entertainment, and communication, but they need to be unleashed.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good biography about Martin Cooper and the invention of the cell phone. It also has some pictures of him, the phone, and also one of Joe Engal.
anthony tarango

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    a great biography of the life of Willis Carrier
savannah krantz

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max factor makeup biography

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      He couldn't afford for education for the children
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      This is great information!
  • Born Max Faktor in Lodz, Poland during the 1870s, Max Factor is often called the father of modern makeup.
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  • With 10 children, the Faktor parents could not afford formal education for their children, so at the age of eight Max was placed in an apprenticeship to a pharmacist.
  • Years of mixing potions for the pharmacy instilled in Max a fascination with cosmetics.
  • Eventually, Max Factor opened his own shop in a suburb of Moscow, selling hand-made rouges, creams, fragrances, and wigs.
  • In 1904, Max Factor and his family moved to the United States.
  • Factor dreamin
  • Max Faktor was now Max Factor, the name given to him at Ellis Island by immigration officials.
  • In 1914, Max Factor created a makeup specifically for movie-actors that, unlike theatrical makeup, would not crack or cake.
  • Soon movie stars were filing through Max Factor's makeup studio, eager to sample the "flexible greasepaint" while producers sought Factor's human hair wigs.
  • Max Factor introduced a line of cosmetics to the public in the 1920s.
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      max factors name actualy is max faktor....it was changes so that he could put it on his line of makeup
Nathanael Nix

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      This is a pretty good video, I recommend it.
  • Yes, I have heard of mobile phones. I have one myself. Kids in sixth-seventh grade are using cell phones these days. Well it’s not a big deal, but way back in 1970s… it was! Till then, no one knew what mobile phones were, as there weren’t any. The only way you could talk on a phone was through a landline or a car radio.
  • Introduction
Nathanael Nix

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cell phone inventor history martin cooper facts cellphone-facts MartinCooper

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  • Martin Cooper
  • Martin "Marty" Cooper is an American pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management.
  • Education: Illinois Institute of Technology (1957), Illinois Institute of Technology (1950)
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    If you look to the right on this Google search, you will see some good information, might not be a lot, but its good.
Chad Amico

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  • Most Famous Invention Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Arthur L. Fry
  • United States
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  • Year Inducted into the
  • Inventors Hall of Fame 2010
  • Art Fry was a researcher at 3M he learned the adhesive microspheres that was developed by Spencer Silver. This microspheres were pressure-sensitive, but had a low degree of adhesion. He coated paper with the adhesive and made repositionable notes and thus he created Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Post-it notes were released to the national market in 1980. In 1981, 3M named Post-it notes its Outstanding New Product. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award, given to teams who create major new products that are significantly profitable. In 2003 the Post-it Note was a central role in a new play titled Inside a Bigger Box that premiered in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
  • Arthur Fry is a retired United States inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries. Fry was born in Minnesota, and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City. He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. During his childhood, he reputedly made his first foray into engineering by building toboggans from scrap lumber. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award
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    ARTHUR FRY BIOGRAPHY!?
Joshua Archer

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    A biography about victor mills
Morgan Pearson

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Nils Bohlin

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    All dates on when important things happened with Nils Bohlin.
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