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Tuffer Jordan

CD technology: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

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technology CD inventor james russell

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  • The compact audio discs that have revolutionized high fidelity music recording will soon do the same for information storage. The new generation compacts discs will be able to hold up to 250,000 pages of text and thousands of full-color images.
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      This article was form when the CD had been upgraded to hold more information and photos.
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    More information on the CD
Nathanael Nix

Lincoln Storage & Cellular: Fun Facts, Who Invented the first Cell Phone? - 0 views

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inventor history cell phone MartinCooper cellphone-facts

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  • Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973.
  • The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research.
  • Cooper, now 70, wanted people to be able to carry their phones with them anywhere.
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  • The First Cellphone (1973)Name: Motorola Dyna-TacSize: 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches Weight: 2.5 pounds Display: None Number of Circuit Boards: 30Talk time: 35 minutes Recharge Time: 10 hours Features: Talk, listen, dial
  • Who is he?Cooper grew up in Chicago and earned a degree in electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After four years in the navy serving on destroyers and a submarine, he worked for a year at a telecommunications company. Hired by Motorola in 1954, Mr. Cooper worked on developing portable products, including the first portable handheld police radios, made for the Chicago police department in 1967. He then led Motorola's cellular research.
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good informational website about who invented the cell phone, Martin Cooper. It gives a lot of good information about him.
Nathanael Nix

Invention & Adoption | The History of the Mobile Phone - 0 views

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cell phone history inventor phone cell cellphone-facts martin MartinCooper cooper

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  • The mobile phone may be seen as a new technology in our day, but the idea was actually first conceived in the year 1908.
  • This statement is only true because the mobile phone is actually a high-tech radio. In 1908 a man named Nathan B. Stubblefield who lived in Murray, Kentucky applied for the U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone; he originally applied his patent to only radio telephones.
  • Martin Cooper did not make the first working mobile phone, he made the first portable mobile phone.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational sight that has a lot of facts about Martin Cooper, it has some very good information to tell you about Martin Cooper.
Morgan Pearson

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article Nils Bohlin seat belt information

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  • Swedish-born
  • saved hundreds of thousands of lives
  • was first offered by Volvo in 1959.
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  • When Volvo CEO Gunnar Engelau lost a relative in a car crash, he recruited Bohlin to boost safety.
  • unused except by race car drivers
  • late 1950s, only two-point lap belts were available
  • he knew the limitations of lap belts
  • focused on combating the harsh deceleration forces of crashes.
  • Within a year
  • widely-used life-saver
  • industry's most effective
  • He died in 2002 at the age of 82.
  • Members of the Hall of Fame selection committee
  • Nils Bohlin's seat belt saves lives.
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    Article of someone writing information about Nils Bohlin.
Heather Purpera

Scrupuli: Who Invented the CD and the CD-ROM? - 0 views

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inventor history notes

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      Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM-James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
  • For a long time Battelle was unable to interest anyone else in ODR. Eventually Sony and Philips licensed it, established a proprietary ODR format for audio called “Compact Disc” (CD), and delivered a commercial product in 1982, followed in 1985 with a related ODR format for data called CD-ROM. Sony and Philips call these their “inventions”, misleading many into seeing Sony and Philips as visionary. They are often given sole credit for this revolutionary technology. In actuality, their contribution was to bring Russell’s system to market, and only after taking two decades to recognize its value.
  • As you might expect, Sony and Philips have made millions, and Russell himself got nothing.
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      Russell got nothing as expected yet Sony and Philips have gotten all the fame and made "millions"!!!
  • Russell invented it Fred Moody: CD-ROM Inventor Strikes Again
  • Sony and Philips co-invented it
  • ment.
  • It is now 14 years since Sony and Philips launched the Compact Disc digital audio format and gave the world its first taste of digital entertain
  • Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM–James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
Morgan Pearson

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inventor history

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  • Nils Ivar Bohlin
  • born in 1920 in Harnosand, Sweden
  • 1939 he completed his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Harnosand Laroveik.
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  • he was in charge of the development of ejection seats
  • ired as a safety engineer for AB Volvo in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • . Safety belts were in use at the time, but the most prevalent design used a single strap with a buckle over the stomach. This design risked injury to body organs in high-speed crashes.
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      Morgan Pearson on 09 Jan 14
       
      Really good information and details on what happened while Nils Bohlin was inventing the three-point seat belt.
  • Bohlin aimed to find an alternative design that would not only protect both the upper and lower body, but would also be comfortable and simple to use.
  • The design held both the upper and lower body in place, and was simple enough that the driver could buckle up with one hand.
  • In 1958, Bohlin was h
  • by 1963 all Volvos came equipped with front seat belts, and the company decided to make the design free for use by all car makers.
  • In 1959, Volvo became the first auto maker to introduce Bohlin’s three-point safety belt design.
  • The report claimed that the belt had already saved thousands of lives, reducing the risk of injury or death in car accidents by as much as 75 percent.
  • It persuaded a number of other national governments to do the same
  • Since its introduction, the three-point shoulder/lap safety belt has changed very little in its overall design.
  • As of today, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the belts reduce the risk of deaths in car crashes by at least 45 percent.
  • Bohlin retired from Volvo in 1985.
  • In 1974 Bohlin was awarded The Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award.
  • honored in 1979 and in 1985 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, D.C. In 1995, he received a medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2002, he was inducted into the (U.S.) National Inventors Hall of Fame. On the day he was to be honored for this achievement, Bohlin died at age 82.
  • Morgan Pearson on 09 Jan 14
     
    Information on Nils Bohlin while inventing the seat belt.
Nathanael Nix

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

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inventor history MartinCooper martin cooper cell phone cellphone-facts

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  • 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?’ ”
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    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.
Morgan Pearson

U.S. Patent issued for three-point seatbelt - History.com This Day in History - 7/10/1962 - 0 views

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U.S. Nils Bohlin three point seat belt

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    Information on the three-point seat belt and a lot on the reactions from the U.S.
anthony tarango

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fatherof cool willis carrier air conditioning inventor history

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    a great cite to find information about Willis Carrier and where he came from 
Morgan Pearson

How Nils Bohlin invented the three-point safety belt | The New Economy - 0 views

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picture Nils Bohlin volvo seat belt

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    A lot of information and detail about Volvo, Nils Bohlin, and the three-point seat belt.
De Anna Jo Powell

'Accidental' Super Glue inventor Harry Coover dies aged 94 | Mail Online - 0 views

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super glue inventor Harry Coover

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  • died at the age of 94
  • died at the age of
  • discovery in 1942
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  • until 1951
  • he saw the adhesive's value
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Dr Coover held 460 patents by the end of his life, but Super Glue did not make him rich
  • born in Newark, Delaware
  • degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's and PhD from Cornell University
  • found that when they spread it over two, very costly, lenses, it was impossible to pull them apart.
  • Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, from congestive heart failure.
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    Good information about Harry Coover
Nathanael Nix

NAE Website - Martin Cooper - 0 views

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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.
Morgan Pearson

Seatbelt design saved many lives: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

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Nils Bohlin quotes seat belt inventor

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    Information on Nils Bohlin and quotes from him while inventing the three-point seat belt.
Nathanael Nix

How We Invented the World: First Handheld Cell Phone : Video : Discovery Channel - 0 views

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MartinCooper cell phone inventor history cooper phone cell martin cellphone-facts

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  • Nathanael Nix on 16 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational video about the first cell phone, it is really amazing.
De Anna Jo Powell

Super Glue Inventor Harry W. Coover Dies at 94 | TIME.com - 0 views

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super glue inventor Harry Coover

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  • Dr. Harry Coover, inventor of Super Glue.
  • introduced in 1973, Super Glue was first discovered in 1942 by Coover
  • trying to make materials for plastic gun sights for soldiers
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  • 1951, while working for Eastman Kodak, Coover and another scientist, Fred Joyner rediscovered the material, which they called Eastman 910 and saw its commercial benefit.
  • Although Coover never actually financially capitalized on Super Glue
  • worked for the Eastman Kodak company until he retired
  • he held more than 460 patents
  • 2004 he was inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and was honored by President Obama for his discovery last November with a National Medal of Science.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 16 Jan 14
     
    A little information on Harry Coover
Nathanael Nix

10 Fun Phone Facts You NEVER Knew! - XBLUE Networks - Office Phone Systems Made Simple - 0 views

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MartinCooper cell phone inventor history cooper martin cellphone-facts

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  • Nathanael Nix on 16 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about some cell phone facts that probably most of you don't even know, it has really good information.
jacob sullivan

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inventor of fountain pen

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  • only five years of schooling, he worked as a teacher, carpenter, and book salesman before becoming an insurance agent. He is said to have vowed to invent a better writing instrument when an inferior pen leaked on an important insurance contract, delaying him long enough that he lost the client.
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    here is some information about Lewis waterman
Nathanael Nix

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inventor cell phone history facts cellphone-facts cooper martin MartinCooper

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  • In 2005 more than 100 million cell phones were discarded in the United States, equalling over 50,000 tons of still-usable equipment
  • Less than 1 percent of the millions of cell phones retired and discarded annually are recycled
  • Over 3 billion people globally own mobiles: if each of them returned one phone for recycling, over 240,000 tons of raw materials could be saved. The carbon emissions saved from this would be the equivalent to taking 4 million cars off the road
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  • To make one phone, over 2kgs of raw materials are required, including petroleum-based plastics, liquid crystal display materials, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and toxic heavy metals including cadmium, lead, nickel, mercury, manganese, lithium, zinc, arsenic, antimony, beryllium and copper.  If not properly recycled, toxins from these materials can seep from mobile devices into the environment when discarded in landfill, where they can accumulate in the food chain and cause damage to plants, animals and humans
  • Nathanael Nix on 16 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational sight about phone facts.
jacob sullivan

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fountain pen history

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    more information on the fountain pen
Nathanael Nix

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cell phone inventor history cell phone martin MartinCooper cooper cellphone-facts

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  • Martin Cooper, invented the cell phone while working for Motorola.
  • Cooper was born in 1928, and from an early age he wanted to find a way to have people be able to travel with a mobile phone.
  • It was until the mid 1980’s that they found a way to make the phone smaller, more efficient, and more affordable for the public.
  • Nathanael Nix on 16 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational website about the cell phone. Has some very good facts
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