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Katie Gatliff

Category:Milton Bradley games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    This is a list of games Milton has created. It has some that were created by other people but handled by his company (some are after he was dead0
Heather Purpera

James Russell (inventor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • James T. Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder.[1]
  • Russell's optical digital inventions were available publicly from 1970. Early optical recording technology, which forms the physical basis of videodisc, CD and DVD technology, was first published/filed by Gregg in 1958 and Philips researchers, Kramer and Compaan, in 1969. It is debatable to say whether Russell's concepts, patents, prototypes, and literature[citation needed] instigated and in some measure guided the optical digital revolution.[4]
  • Russell also invented an optical, massively parallel, memory system that uses no moving parts. This concept is taught in six patents[citatio
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  • He has developed concepts for a novel transportation system and urban structure[citation needed]. In July 2007, Russell held 54 US patents.
Nathanael Nix

Martin Cooper Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Martin Cooper - 0 views

  • American engineer Martin Cooper (born 1928) is often dubbed the father of the mobile phone. In November of 1972, he and a team of associates at the Motorola Company began working on a prototype of the Dyna-Tac phone, and five months later Cooper stood on a Manhattan street and placed the world's first call from a mobile phone. “There were a lot of naysayers over the years,” Cooper admitted in an interview with Investor's Business Daily writer Patrick Seitz. “People would say, ‘Why are we spending all of this money? Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?’ ”
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    This is an amazing site about Martin Cooper and the cell phone invention it gives some good information besides the facts that he created the first cell phone.
Katlyn Humphries

History of Procter & Gamble | Toilet Paper Encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Febreze
  • Old Spice
  • Secret
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  • Charmin
  • Children’s Pepto
  • Clearblue Easy
  • Dreft
  • Pampers
  • Pampers Kandoo
  • Max Factor
  • Puffs
  • Duracell
  • Camay
  • Ivory
  • Old Spice
  • Safeguard
  • CoverGirl
  • Pampers UnderJams
  • Braun
  • Gillette Complete Skincare
  • Cascade
  • Ivory
  • Always
  • Tampax
  • Aussie
  • Clairol
  • Head & Shoulders
  • Herbal Essences
  • Infusium 23
  • Pantene
  • Align
  • Pepto-Bismol
  • Prilosec OTC
  • Bounty
  • Mr. Clean
  • Swiffer
  • Crest
  • Crest Glide
  • Crest Whitestrips
  • Scope
  • Oral-B
  • Gillette Fusion
  • Gillette M3Power
  • Gillette SatinCare
  • Gillette Venus
  • Pringles
  • 1907-1920 William Cooper Procter, son of William Alexander, takes over as Head of the company. Crisco is invented and introduced, and the company’s candles are discontinued with the development of the electric light bulb!Over the next three decades, Procter & Gamble develops many more products. Tide detergent, Drene shampoo, Duncan Hines Cake Mix, and Crest toothpaste are just a few of the products that brought the company much wealth, during that time.
  • 1850 Procter & Gamble begin printing the “Moon and Stars” on their packaged products, as their unofficial trademark.
  • 1859 Procter & Gamble reaches the one million-dollar mark!
  • 1862 Numerous contracts were awarded to P&G, during the Civil War, to supply soap and candles to the Union armies.
  • 1890 William Alexander Procter, younger son of Mr. Procter, becomes the first President of the company. That same year, he builds one of the American industry’s first research labs for products.
  • 1837 William Procter (a candle maker from England) and James Gamble (a soap maker from Ireland) immigrate to Cincinnati, Ohio and begin selling their products. A formal partnership is signed on October 31, 1837.
  • 1957-1961 P&G enters the paper product industry with the acquisition of Charmin Paper Mills, and Pampers are brought to the test market. The original Charmin “family” included paper towels, facial tissue and bath tissue, however; P&G discontinued all but bath tissue for their product market.
  • 1973 Procter & Gamble patents a new manufacturing technique to produce softer Charmin tissue.
  • 1978 Charmin becomes available in all 50 states, and the new 6-roll package is introduced.
  • 1994-1997 Charmin’s products just keep coming! The Charmin Mega Roll, the double roll, the triple roll, and the “Big Squeeze” mega size roll are created.
  • 1999 Procter & Gamble introduces its biggest upgrade in 10 years-the new, most absorbent Charmin toilet tissue with the same softness.
  • 2002 P&G develops Naturella feminine pads specifically for needs of low-income women in Latin America.
  • 2006 To aid the global crisis of unsafe drinking water in developing countries, P&G launches the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program using their PUR water system.
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    List of their brands that they've joined or created
Garrett Warren

seat belt -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

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    info on seat belts from britanica.com
Katie Gatliff

Milton Bradley | The Play and Playground Encyclopedia - 2 views

  • With the advent of the American Civil War, Milton saw the interest in games fade until he created the idea of a small kit of games for the soldiers to play during periods of inactivity. His kit included chess, checkers, backgammon, dominoes, and his Checkered Game of Life. The kits were sold directly to the soldiers as well as charitable organizations who distributed them to the soldiers.
  • Milton's success with games monetarily carried his interest in supporting the new kindergarten movement. However, with the 1870 recession, his partners were no longer willing to support these extra costs. Milton chose to continue his support of the kindergarten movement and his friend, George Tapley, bought out the partners and became president. This left Milton free to invent new games and educational materials.
  • This foresight paid off by the early 1900s. Kindergartens were spreading across the United States and the teachers were buying Milton's art supplies, multiplication sticks, toy money, movable clock dials, story books, school furniture, and educational games. Milton Bradley Company's education department went from operating at a loss to being a major source of earnings for the company.1
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  • On this solid basis, Milton continued to produce games and puzzles, such as word games, trivia knowledge games, biblical games, traditional games, rebus-based games, and an early type of Monopoly called “The Way to Make Money.” Additionally, Milton researched and codified the rules for croquet that was included with his croquet sets. Those rules became the standard in America.
  • Milton continued to produce games, especially parlor games and jigsaw puzzles.
  • When Milton died in 1911, the company was temporarily led by Ralph Ellis before it was co-chaired by Milton's son-in-law Robert Ingersoll and George's son, William Tapley. By 1920, Milton Bradley Company had five manufacturing sites in Springfield.
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    i highlighted the stuff about when Milton was alive but you can go back in and look at the history about the company
Alana Pearce

Smith, C. Harold - Overview, Personal Life, Career Details, Chronology: C. Harold Smith... - 1 views

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      They're cousins?! Sweet. 
  • In 1885 C. Harold Smith founded a company with his cousin, Edwin Binney.
  • ons crayola company binney (186
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  • C. Harold Smith was born in London, England in 1860 and lived for a while in New Zealand as a teenager until coming to the United States in 1878. He married Paula Smith and they had two children, Bertha B. Hillas and Sidney V. Smith. Harold Smith was known for being outgoing. He established business friendships all over the world while traveling, a pastime he enjoyed. He kept notes on his traveling, and used this in his later years in his writing. He wrote several fictional and philosophical books which aroused interest from the public, particularly his autobiography which gave a glimpse of his personal philosophy. He had an interest in philanthropy and organized discussions to pursue charitable actions. He was involved in civic organizations such as the Union League Club of New York, the Transportation Club, the Uptown Club, and the Hudson River Country Club. He died in 1931 at 71 years of age.
  • Career Details Smith first became interested in the carbon industry when he arrived in the United States of America in 1878. He spent the next several years acquiring knowledge of the industry and accumulating the capital to found his company. Smith was respected in the business community for his solid base of technical knowledge and was nicknamed “The Carbon King.” He founded Binney & Smith with Edwin Binney in the late 1800s.
Alana Pearce

Edwin Binney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    All about Edwin Binney
Ben Lews

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

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    A little about William Wrigley Jr.
Morgan Pearson

Seat belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • its modern form by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo—who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.
  • A seat belt, also known as a safety belt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the occupant of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop.
  • reduce the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision
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  • secondary impacts with interior strike hazards,
  • positioned correctly for maximum effectiveness of the airbag (if equipped) and by preventing occupants being ejected from the vehicle in a crash or if the vehicle rolls over.
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    great info
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    About the three-point seat belt.
Chad Amico

Post-it note - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, was attempting to develop a super-strong adhesive, but instead he accidentally created a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive[1][2] that has been characterized as "a solution without a problem"
  • Fry then developed the idea by taking advantage of 3M's officially sanctioned "permitted bootlegging" policy.[5] 3M launched the product in stores in 1977 in four cities under the name "Press 'n Peel", but its results were disappointing.[6][7] A year later, in 1978, 3M issued free samples to residents of Boise, Idaho, and 94 percent of the people who tried them said that they would buy the product.[6] On April 6, 1980, the product debuted in US stores as "Post-It Notes".[8] In 1981, Post-its were launched in Canada and Europe.[9]
  • In 2003, the company came out with Post-it Brand Super Sticky notes, with a stronger glue that adheres better to vertical and non-smooth surfaces.[10] Standard Post-it Brand notes have only partial adhesive coating on the back, along one edge.
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  • The Yellow Stickee Diary of a Mad Secretary", by Rosa Maria Arenas, is the mini graphic journal of an office worker/artist, exhibited July 7 - August 25, 2013, at the Michigan Institute of Contemporary Art (MICA) Gallery in Lansing, Michigan. The 41 drawings displayed are a tiny percentage of the more than 2000 original drawings that constitute the Yellow Stickee Diary Project which Arenas created while working temp jobs from 1994 to 2005. Printed with archival inks on archival paper, the reproductions include "stickee sized" (3" x 5") framed prints and enlargements of the original drawings (which were all done on post-it notes).
  • Rebecca Murtaugh, a California artist who uses Post-it notes in her artwork, in 2001 created an installation by covering her whole bedroom with $1000 worth of the notes, using the ordinary yellow for objects she saw as having less value and neon colors for more important objects, such as the bed.[10]
  • One such work, by the artist R. B. Kitaj, sold for £640 in an auction, making it the most valuable Post-it note on record.[14]
  • Analogues of Post-it notes have also been used in technology in the form of desktop notes which are computer applications developed to allow users to put virtual notes on their computer desktop. These computerized versions of Post-it notes include 3M's own "Post-it Brand Software Notes", "Stickies" in Mac OS, "Sticky Notes" in Windows,[15] or other non-free applications like ShixxNOTE.[16] Additionally, some web applications have developed Post-it sort notes for online use.
Trey Mcintyre

Air conditioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Air conditioning (often referred to as aircon, AC or A/C) is the process of altering the properties of air (primarily temperature and humidity) to more favourable conditions. More generally, air conditioning can refer to any form of technological cooling, heating, ventilation, or disinfection that modifies the condition of air.[1]
  • An air conditioner is a major or home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to change the air temperature and humidity within an area (used for cooling and sometimes heating depending on the air properties at a given time). The cooling is typically done using a simple refrigeration cycle, but sometimes evaporation is used, commonly for comfort cooling in buildings and motor vehicles. In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air conditioning is referred to as "HVAC".
  • Air conditioning can also be provided by a simple process called free cooling which uses pumps to circulate a coolant
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  • ng. Common storage media are deep aquifers or a natural underground rock mass accessed via a cluster of small-diameter, heat exchanger equipped boreholes.
  • he heat pump is added-in because the temperature of the storage gradually increase during the cooling season, thereby declining in effectiveness. Free cooling and hybrid systems are mature
  • The basic concept behind air conditioning is said to have been applied in ancient Egypt, where reeds were hung in windows and were moistened with trickling water. The evaporation of water cooled the air blowing through the window, though this process also made the air more humid (also beneficial in a dry desert climate). In Ancient Rome, water from aqueducts was circulated through the walls of certain houses to cool them. Other techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. Modern air conditioning emerged from advances in chemistry during the 19th century, and the first large-scale electrical air conditioning was invented and used in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier. The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped enable the great migration to the Sun Belt in the US.
jacob sullivan

Waterman pens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    here are some facts about a fountain pen
bobby gaulden

Velcro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • invented in 1948
  • Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral
  • The hook-and-loop fastener was conceived in 1941 by Swiss engineer, George de Mestral[2][9][10] who lived in Commugny, Switzerland.
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  • The idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs
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    facts about velcro 
bobby gaulden

George de Mestral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • an agricultural engineer
  • Mestral designed a toy airplane at age twelve and patented it
  • He attended the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
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  • graduation in 1930
  • ventually selling 60 million yards
  • multi-million dollar company.
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    the inventor of Velcro 
De Anna Jo Powell

File:Cyanoacrylate structure.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Picture of cyanoacrylate
Katlyn Humphries

Pampers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    the history of pampers
savannah krantz

Max Factor, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • He was born Francis Factor in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Max Factor, a Polish immigrant. Known as "Frank," his family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1908 where he began working in the family business while still a boy.
  • While his father wanted to reserve the product for film use, Frank Factor was open to the commercial possibilities and began developing lighter shades.
  • At the time the company was only able to produce enough to meet studio demand which until production could be increased delayed commercial release until 1937.
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  • After his father's death in 1938,[2] Frank Factor at the urging of his family legally changed his name to Max Factor, Jr. and as president expanded the still private cosmetics firm, along with members of the immediate family. He was heavily involved with the development of new products, particularly "Tru-Color" released in 1940 as the first smear-proof lipstick.
  • Max Factor, Jr. was married in 1933 to Mildred “Milly” Cohen with whom he remained for thirty-seven years until her death in 1970.[3] The couple raced Thoroughbred horses for many years.
  • Max Factor, Jr., died in 1996 of heart failure in Los Angeles, California, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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    sad story but great guy
Jessi Bennett

cellophane -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

  • 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 
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