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Jessi Bennett

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cellophane jacques brandenberger britannica

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  • cellophane, a thin film of regenerated cellulose, usually transparent, employed primarily as a packaging material. For many years after World War I, cellophane was the only flexible, transparent plastic film available for use in such common items as food wrap and adhesive tape.
  • Cellophane emerged from a series of efforts conducted during the late 19th century to produce artificial materials by the chemical alteration of cellulose,
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    BRITANNICA cellophane
Jessi Bennett

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britannica inventor cellophane Brandenberger

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  • cellophane, a thin film of regenerated cellulose, usually transparent, employed primarily as a packaging material. For many years after World War I, cellophane was the only flexible, transparent plastic film available for use in such common items as food wrap and adhesive tape.
  • Cellophane emerged from a series of efforts conducted during the late 19th century to produce artificial materials by the chemical alteration of cellulose
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    History of cellophane 
bailey spoonemroe

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gum inventor history

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  • Ingredients
  • The various latexes are taken from trees in much the same way that rubber is obtained. The tree is gashed, and the latex drips into canvas bags. It is then boiled to reduce water content, hardened, and kneaded into blocks weighing about 25 pounds (11 kilograms). After shipment to a gum factory, it is purified by heating and straining before being put into a mixer, a vat in which other ingredients are added. After cooling, the mixture is flattened by rolling machines, cut into sticks, and fed into a machine for wrapping and packaging.
  • This is the process used for the standard stick of chewing gum. Gum is also sold in candy-coated pellets or tablets, soft bubble gum, gum balls, and slabs or sticks of bubble gum. Each type is put through a different process. Some bubble gum, for instance, is extruded, or squeezed through holes while still warm, then cut or shaped before being wrapped.Gum balls are coated with a sealer and then sprayed repeatedly with sugar syrup that hardens. Next they are polished with an edible wax. Candy-coated pellets or tablets are treated in much the same way.Chewing gum is a popular product around the world. Manufacturers are located on almost every continent. However, the world’s largest manufacturer of chewing gum is the William Wrigley Jr. Company of Chicago. Other U.S. manufacturers include the Topps Company and the Ford Gum & Machine Company
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    another on how gum is made (Britannica)
Ben Lews

William Wrigley, Jr. (American manufacturer) -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

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    A little about William Wrigley Jr.
Nathanael Nix

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  • Martin Cooper, byname Marty Cooper   (born December 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone and made the first cell-phone call. He is widely regarded as the father of the cellular phone.
  • He joined the U.S. Navy and served during the Korean War. After the war, he joined the Teletype Corporation, and in 1954 he began working at Motorola.
  • On April 3, 1973, Cooper introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in New York City. To make sure that it worked before the press conference, he placed the first public cell-phone call, to engineer Joel Engel, head of AT&T’s rival project, and gloated that he was calling from a portable cellular phone.
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  • At Motorola, Cooper worked on many projects involving wireless communications, such as the first radio-controlled traffic-light system, which he patented in 1960, and the first handheld police radios, which were introduced in 1967. He later served as a vice president and director of research and development (1978–83) for the company.
  • In 1986 he and his partners sold CBSI to Cincinnati Bell for $23 million, and he and his wife, Arlene Harris, founded Dyna, LLC. Dyna served as a central organization from which they launched other companies, such as ArrayComm (1996), which developed software for wireless systems, and GreatCall (2006), which provided wireless service for the Jitterbug, a cell phone with simple features meant for the elderly.
  • Nathanael Nix on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a good article about Martin Cooper, it has some good information on the cell phone, and some of his other inventions.
Morgan Pearson

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swedish engineer Nils Bohlin

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    Information about Nils Bohlin and his invention, the three-point seat belt. 
Katlyn Humphries

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    Britannica has great information on the company
Garrett Warren

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    info on seat belts from britanica.com
Shelby Tenney

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  •  (born March 6, 1917, Newark, Del.—died March 26, 2011, Kingsport, Tenn.), American chemist who discovered the powerful adhesive Super Glue while working as a chemist for Eastman Kodak, conducting research on cyanoacrylates to be used in clear plastic gunsights during World War II. Because the sticky cyanoacrylates were difficult to handle, Coover abandoned the research. In 1951 a colleague used the substance during a test to find a heat-resistant compound for jet cockpit canopies and was dismayed when it adhered to—and badly damaged—the lab equipment. Coover, however, recognized its unique ability to bond without the need for heat or pressure
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      this is my version of britanica because the schools britanica didnt pull anything up.
Joshua Archer

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company history Procter Gamble

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    History about the Procter and Gamble company
Katie Gatliff

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bradley milton school

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  • born on Nov. 8, 1836, in Vienna, Me. As the owner of a lithography shop, he was looking for a profitable product to manufacture when he thought of printing board games. He created one called The Checkered Game of Life in the early 1860s and successfully peddled it all over New York State. He formed the Milton Bradley Company, which produced other games and standardized and popularized croquet in America.
  • (1836–1911), U.S. manufacturer.
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    Britanica
Katlyn Humphries

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  • The chief ingredient for both products was animal fat, which was readily available in the hog-butchering centre of Cincinnati
  • supplied soap and candles to the Union Army during the American Civil War and sold even more of these products to the public when the war was over.
  • Joy, the first liquid synthetic detergent (1949).
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  • the company extended it product lines to include toothpaste, coffee, tea, an
  • d baking mixes. By the early 21st century Procter & Gamble marketed products in several major areas: health and wellness (prescription medications, digestive aids, mouthwashes, toothbrushes, and toothpastes); house and home (cleaning products, detergents, paper towels, coffee, and snack foods); personal and beauty (fragrances, deodorants, cosmetics, shaving supplies, and hair colour); baby and family (diapers and tissue, cleansing products, and moisturizers); and pet care, including pet foods
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    britannica's insight on procter and gamble
jacob sullivan

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inventor history

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    awsome information about the fountain pen
De Anna Jo Powell

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inventor super glue Harry Coover

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  • Alternate titles: methyl cyanoacrylate
  • Cyanoacrylate adhesives were first patented in 1949
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    A little bit of info about the actual formula super glue 
Ben Lews

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  • William Wrigley, Jr., (born Sept. 30, 1861, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 26, 1932, Phoenix, Ariz.), American salesman and manufacturer whose company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world.
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    Britanica William Wrigley Jr.
Mary Gilliam

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john harvey kellogg inventor history notes

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      Cool facts about John Harvey Kellogg!
  • Although cornflakes were not new, they had never before been presented as a breakfast food. Kellogg was the founder and first president (1923–26) of Battle Creek College, and he opened the Miami-Battle Creek Sanitarium at Miami Springs, Fla., in 1931. He also wrote many medical books. Kellogg died on Dec. 14, 1943, in Battle Creek, Mich.
  • (1852–1943). U.S. physician and health-food pioneer John H. Kellogg’s development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry. His brother W.K. Kellogg formed what became the Kellogg Company to market the cereals.
  • Mary Gilliam on 17 Jan 14
     
    Really good website for John Harvey Kellogg!
Ben Lews

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    Britanica William Wrigley Jr.
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