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Max N.

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

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      Max N. on 10 Jan 14
       
      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
savannah krantz

▶ Max Factor's Heritage - تراث ماكس فاكتور - YouTube - 0 views

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max factor heritage

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    all about max factors heritage and about his life story... he new glamour isnt something your born with u create it...max factor the maker of make up
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.
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    Information on Nils Bohlin while inventing the seat belt.
Katlyn Humphries

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

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  • 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
Katlyn Humphries

PG.com Heritage: market research, brand building, profit sharing - 0 views

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  • William Procter and James Gamble settle in the Queen City of the West, Cincinnati, and establish themselves in business — William as a candle maker and James as a soap maker. The two might never have met had they not married sisters, whose father convinced his new sons-in-law to become business partners. As a result, in 1837, a new company was born: Procter & Gamble.
  • 1879 P&G launches its first branded product, Ivory Soap.
  • P&G becomes one of the first companies to advertise on commercial radio.
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  • 1961 P&G introduces Pampers, the first affordable, successful, disposable diaper.
  • 175 Years of Innovation Since our humble beginnings in 1837, P&G products have been touching and improving people’s everyday lives. Watch Our History Video Birth of an Icon: TAMPAX P&G’s iconic brand Tampax has changed women’s everyday lives forever, providing an innovative and comfortable feminine care option. Read More More Iconic Brands
  • In 1837, William Procter and James Gamble signed a partnership agreement formalizing The Procter & Gamble Company, with combined total assets of $7,192.24.
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    William Procter and James Gamble- inventor the diaper...
Max N.

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game board inventor

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  • Candy Land, Chutes and L
  • adders, Mouse Trap, and Cootie
  • didn’t set out to be a game maker
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  • trained as a draftsman, drawing plans for railroad cars
  • lithography business in 1860.
  • Bradley became a game maker fortuitously
  • Playing a board game with a friend, he had an idea for one of his own.
  • He was an early advocate of the emerging kindergarten movement started by Friedrich Fröbel in Germany. Fröbel used toys, called Fröbel’s gifts, to spark the imagination of young children
  • pastime and Puritanical preparation rolled into one.
  • forty-thousand copies
  • beginning of the Civil War
  • Soldiers got bored. And a reasonably priced game kit was just what they needed.
  • Charitable organizations bought and distributed kits made by Bradley.
  • players moved pieces on a converted checkerboard, with labels added to the squares. Landing on the square labeled “industry” transported a player to the square labeled “wealth”. “Gambling” led to “ruin”; “intemperance” to “poverty.” The game was called the “Checkered Game of Life.”
  • embraced the idea, and supplied blossoming kindergartens with educational toys.
  • he continued to produce educational toys even when it put his business at risk
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  • Max N. on 15 Jan 14
     
    Very good info on Milton Bradley
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.
Alana Pearce

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  • Many years before the creation of Crayola, makers Edwin Binney & C. Harold Smith, started out making color pigments that would eventually lead them to get the idea to create Crayola crayons.
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      Very interesting! 
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