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cody fox

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    all the color names andcolors
bobby gaulden

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Velcro 's name facts

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  • bobby gaulden on 16 Jan 14
     
    how the names was invented, really couldn't think of anything else
Max N.

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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
Mary Gilliam

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  • The Sanitarium continued to grow in fame until the Great Depression, when economic hardtimes forced Kellogg to sell it. He eventually opened another Sanitarium in Florida, but it never achieved the fame of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
  •  In 1900 John Harvey Kellogg wrote The Living Temple, his attempt to correlate physiology and health care with St. Paul’s admonission, “Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?” Several Adventist leaders, including Ellen White, disapproved of the book’s theology. There were also disagreements concerning the health mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Kellogg advocated one large, world-famous center while Ellen White urged several smaller centers to spread the health message farther. By 1907, after much arguing and negotiation, Kellogg removed the Battle Creek property from Seventh-day Adventist ownership and was cut off from the church.
  • John Harvey, along with his brother Will, founded Sanitas Food Company in 1897. When Will wanted to add sugar to the Corn Flakes recipe, the brothers argued and fell out. In 1906 Will started his own company, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which eventually became the Kellogg Company.
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  • At its heighth, in 1906, with over 7,000 guests, including 1800 staff members, the Sanitarium became a destination for both wealthy and middle-class American citizens. It drew prominent people like Amelia Earhart, Johnny Weismuller, John D. Rockefeller and Warren Harding. Influential visitors like Mary Todd Lincoln and Sojourner Truth promoted Kellogg’s enthusiasm for health and wellness among the general population. It was nicknamed "The San" by its clients.
  • He promoted the Adventist principles of a low-fat, low-protein diet with an emphasis on whole grains, fiber-rich foods, and, most importantly, nuts. Kellogg also recommended a daily intake of fresh air, exercise, and the importance of hygiene. He offered classes on food preparation for homemakers.
  • In 1876 John Harvey Kellogg (1852 – 1943) became the superintendent of the Western Health Reform Institute. He renamed it the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a word he coined to infer a health-inducing institution. 
  • Mary Gilliam on 13 Jan 14
     
    Good website about John Harvey!
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.
De Anna Jo Powell

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super glue inventor Harry Coover

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  • Harry Coover, 94, who as a young chemist in the 1940s and '50s discovered a powerful adhesive compound known today as Super Glue and Instant Krazy Glue, died March 26 at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He had congestive heart failure.
  • 1942, as a chemist with Eastman Kodak
  • developing a plastic rifle sight for use in World War II
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  • "The damn problem was everything was sticking to everything else," he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2005. "We had a hard time using it in molds."
  • 1951, Dr. Coover was testing a heat-resistant polymer for use in aircraft windshields when he remembered his encounter with cyanoacrylate.
  • droplet of the liquid
  • bonded the lenses of an expensive optical instrument
  • compound solidifies after coming into contact with trace amounts of moisture
  • extremely strong polymer layer between two surfaces.
  • 1958 on an episode of the game show "I've Got a Secret,"
  • Eastman 910
  • aptly named because its fast-acting adhesive is effective by the count of 10
  • hoist Moore in the air as the host dangled from a set of glued pipes.
  • Eastman 910's remarkable strength and sticky quality led to a wide variety of applications.
  • used Super Glue to reduce scarring
  • 1950s, it was used in the manufacturing of atomic weapons.
  • Dr. Coover was most proud of its application in the Vietnam War
  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr. was born March 6, 1917, in Newark, Del.
  • As a teenager, he was driving over a railroad crossing when his car was hit by a train, his family said. The accident sent Dr. Coover into a coma for several months. When he awoke, he had no memory of the crash or his life before he was 16
  • recovered and graduated in 1941 from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. He then attended Cornell University, where he received a master's degree in 1942 and a doctorate in 1944, both in chemistry.
  • Dr. Coover retired from Eastman Kodak as vice president in 1984
  • 2010, President Obama awarded Dr. Coover the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Dr. Coover held more than 460 patents
  • 1983 movie "The Man Who Loved Women," Burt Reynolds and a tube of Instant Krazy Glue become stuck to a white shag carpet and a miniature dog named Simba.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 17 Jan 14
     
    Some good information on Harry Coover of when he was younger
savannah krantz

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      samantha horton on 09 Jan 14
       
      He couldn't afford for education for the children
    • savannah krantz
      savannah krantz on 10 Jan 14
       
      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.
    • savannah krantz
      savannah krantz on 10 Jan 14
       
      max factors name actualy is max faktor....it was changes so that he could put it on his line of makeup
Tuffer Jordan

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CD inventor

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  • The Puget Sound Engineering Council selected Russell as the 2005 Industry Engineer of the Year. And despite all of his accomplishments, it wasn't until Joe Decuir of Seattle's chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., (IEEE) saw a story about Russell in the local newspaper that he suggested Russell's name to the committee last fall.
  • In the mid 1950s, he was frustrated with the sound quality of LPs, which started wearing out after only a dozen plays. He even tried using a cactus needle to play records because the jewel needle wore out the vinyl faster and didn't sound as clear. Russell wanted a way to capture the complexity and nuances of classical music without damaging the recording. And the idea that sparked a multi-billion dollar industry was about to take shape in Russell's mind.
  • In fifth grade, he started building radios out of parts he scrounged from the neighbors. In high school, he took a job setting up a commercial radio station, even though he didn't know how to hook up most of the equipment. "But I learned– rapidly,” he laughs.
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  • After graduating from Reed College with a degree in physics in 1953, Russell took a job with General Electric in the Hanford Nuclear Plant doing experimental work.
  • Battelle took over the Hanford Laboratories in 1965 and gave Russell a lab and time to work on some of his imaginings, including the crazy idea that sound could be converted to strings of numbers and reproduced using light.
  • He had come up with a way of using a laser to read digital bits of information, which later became the most widely-used way to read just about everything. By using a light to read the data, the record would never wear out. The data are encoded as microscopic pit marks on the surface of the disk, which, when spun, can be read to reproduce high-quality sound.
  • The original goal was to record television shows, not music, because adding visuals would be more difficult. If television couldn't be recorded digitally, Russell and his backers decided they would at least know where they stood. In 1973, they were successful, but they were ahead of their time. Amazingly, no one wanted to buy a license for the precursor to the DVD.
  • By 1991, about 25 years after he came up with the idea, CDs were outselling their predecessors, audio tapes, in record stores nationwide.
  • But all he can do is shrug ruefully, "I didn't invent the CD, I invented the technology.”
  • Today, Russell has more than 50 patents to his name. He continues his work from the basement of his Bellevue home where he and Barbara have lived for more than a decade.
  • The first devices were called Optical Digital Data Storage –the term CD is actually a trademark of Philips. The original storage units were made of glass plates, about the size of large index cards, which could be read as a laser scanned over them.
    • Tuffer Jordan
      Tuffer Jordan on 16 Jan 14
       
      Russell didn't get fame nor riches for his invention.
  • Now, sales of the mirror-like plastic discs are in the billions every year, but the man behind it all has gotten neither fame nor riches. The company that held the patents sold the rights for a song. Now, Russell has a few artifacts from the early days, a scrapbook full of pictures, and a handful of plaques and trophies to show for all his
    • Tuffer Jordan
      Tuffer Jordan on 16 Jan 14
       
      In the fifth grade, Russell started building radios out of parts he scrounged form the neighbors.
    • Tuffer Jordan
      Tuffer Jordan on 16 Jan 14
       
      Russell came up with a way of using a laser to read digital bits of information, which later became the most widely-used way to read just about everything.
  • Tuffer Jordan on 10 Jan 14
     
    James T. Russell invented the CD! 
Katie Gatliff

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  • "Triumph" is the name of an electronic board game invented by Coleman and Burten which they had hoped to sell to Milton Bradley
  • so they modified the game and resubmitted it to Milton Bradley after signing new disclosure agreements.  Triumph again was rejected by Milton Bradley
  • one year later, appellants discovered that Milton Bradley was marketing a new electronic board game under the name of "Dark Tower".  Because appellants believed that Dark Tower contained significant structural and design similarities to Triumph, they brought this action for trade secret misappropriation.
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  •  At the close of appellants' case, the fraud count was withdrawn, the court directed a verdict for Milton Bradley on the contract claim, and denied without prejudice Milton Bradley's motion for a directed verdict on the misappropriation counts.  After the lengthy trial was concluded, the jury returned a general verdict for Coleman and Burten in the amount of $737,058.10 for royalties based on the Dark Tower profits.  Milton Bradley moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and the district court, after a meticulous survey of the cases, which it recognized posed a "surprisingly close question", set aside the verdict.  We share the court's view of the closeness of the question, but feel constrained to allow the verdict to stand.
  • Katie Gatliff on 10 Jan 14
     
    a really cool story about how Milton Bradley "stole" an idea for a game
justin creed

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  • They are those great little
  • self-stick notepapers.  Most people have Post-it®  Notes.   Most people use them.  Most people love them.  But Post-it®  Notes were not a planned product. 
  • A man named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories in 1970 trying to find a strong adhesive.  Silver developed a new adhesive, but it was even weaker than what 3M already
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  • manufactured. 
  • No one knew what to do with the stuff, but Silver didn't discard it. 
  • Then one Sunday four years later, another 3M scientist named Arthur Fry was singing in the church's choir.  He used markers to keep his place in the hymnal, but they kept falling out of the book.  Remembering Silver's adhesive, Fry used some to coat his markers.  Success!  With the weak adhesive, the markers stayed in place, yet lifted off without damaging the pages.  3M began distributing Post-it ® Notes nationwide in 1980 -- ten years after Silver developed the super weak adhesive.  Today they are one of the most popular office products available.
justin creed

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  • In 1968 a 3M scientist developed a reusable adhesive that didn't really stick. The glue he created could hold paper together, but wasn't strong enough to maintain the bond when pulled on. Unfortunately, the scientist was trying to make a super glue. It would take 12 years and a flash of 'eureka' to turn the glue that wouldn't stick into the Post-It Note.
  • While trying to improve the adhesive that 3M used for tape, Silver discovered a less sticky glue. Ordinary adhesives are flat, with a solid contact area for adhesion. It is this unbroken contact that makes glue so sticky. What Silver found was a glue that while quite sticky, could only be formed into individual spheres the thickness of a piece of paper. The spheres would only adhere to things tangentially, thus, the adhesive's total contact area was very small. The result was a tacky, reusable glue that held paper together well. Silver knew he was on to something, but wasn't sure how to market it.
  • In attendance at one of these seminars was a 3M scientist named Arthur Fry. Fry sang in his church choir, and to keep track of the hymns, he tore scraps of paper into strips to make bookmarks. Every Sunday a few would fall out of the hymnal, frustrating Fry. In a moment of 'divine' inspiration, Fry realized that Silver's glue might make the perfect temporary adhesive to hold bookmarks! At work, Fry gathered
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  • scraps of paper and Silver's glue, and combined them to make sticky, but removable bookmarks. The bookmarks were popular and handy, but people didn't need more than a few of them.
  • In 1978 a team of 3M marketers flooded Boise, Idaho, showing everyone they could find the wondrous new notes. Post-It Notes were officially released to the public in 1980, and in 1981 they were named 3M's Outstanding New Product. Today there are over 600 products based on the Post-It concept. Arthur Fry is semi-retired from 3M, maintaining a part-time presence as a mentor. Spencer Silver retired in 1996.
  • When it became clear that Post-It Notes were viable in a commercial atmosphere, 3M's marketing went to work.
  • Fry quickly realized that his bookmark had applications as an adhesive note. Fry believed so strongly in his invention that when engineers told him that a machine didn't exist to manufacture the notes, he went home and built just such a machine in his basement. When he couldn't fit it through his basement door, he knocked the wall down. Now he had his manufacturing equipment, and a great product. The only thing he didn't have was the support of senior management at 3M. To overcome this, Fry sent samples of his notes to all the company's executives, who quickly ordered more samples. Management was quickly hooked, and their demand soon outstripped development's production capacity.
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      Chad Amico on 13 Jan 14
       
      AMAZING. . . __ 
savannah krantz

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      savannah krantz on 13 Jan 14
       
      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.
  • samantha horton on 10 Jan 14
     
    some information about him
Chad Amico

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  • 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.
bailey spoonemroe

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  • William Wrigley
  • Perhaps one of the most famous names in the gum industry is William Wrigley.  Wrigley was the son of a soap salesman from Philadelphia, and at the age of thirteen, he was also selling soap.  At the age of 30, he moved to Chicago to open a new branch of his father’s company and came up with an idea to provide “premiums” to vendors who purchased a certain amount of soap.  These premiums included baking powder, cookbooks, and umbrellas. 14.  The baking powder sales surpassed the popularity of the soap, so Wrigley made that his primary product and offered gum as a premium, the very same development from John Curtis.  Once again, the premium’s popularity surpassed that of the product, and Wrigley entered the gum industry.  Wrigley hired the Zero Gum Company to manufacture gum for him, and it was here that the Wrigley’s industry started.  He introduced a series of branded gums in 1983, including Juicy Fruit and Spearmint.  In 1898, he founded William Wrigley Jr. Company. 15.  
  • While this type of industry-making is nothing new or special, what set Wrigley apart from his competitors, including the Adams company, was his marketing and advertising.  Wrigley is famously quoted as saying, “Anyone can make gum. The trick is to sell it.”16.  And sell it he did.  Wrigley began by doing a modest advertising campaign in 1906 in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, with successful results.  The campaign then evolved to massive billboards, placards in streetcars and subways, and one of the first electric signs,
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  • including a massive one in Times Square (the electricity bill of which was an annual $100,000).
  •   The billboards then evolved to a linked line of 117 signs along the railroad between Atlantic City and Trenton, New Jersey advertising Wrigley’s Spearmint.  Between 1915 and 1917, Wrigley sent free samples of gum to everyone with a telephone book, a total of more than 8.5 million, and in another campaign, every child received two sticks of gum when they turned two, reaching 750,000 children. 17.  A brand-recognition study in the 1920s found that 65% of people listed Wrigley as their “top-of-mind” choice for chewing gum, while the nearest competitor scored only 10%. 18.  Wrigley’s advertising campaigns were what truly made gum popular throughout the country and a billion dollar industry.
  • Ben Lews on 16 Jan 14
     
    How he started selling gum
  • bailey spoonemroe on 17 Jan 14
     
    good info look at highleded info on the inventer
De Anna Jo Powell

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  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94
  • 1951, Mr. Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958,
  • the chemical name for the glue, was first uncovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear-plastic gun sights for World War II.
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  • President Obama honored Mr. Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Mr. Coover led a team of chemists that became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460.
  • organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 16 Jan 14
     
    Good little article with some pretty good information about Harry Coover and some about the invention of superglue
savannah krantz

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  • 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.
  • savannah krantz on 13 Jan 14
     
    sad story but great guy
De Anna Jo Powell

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    • De Anna Jo Powell
      De Anna Jo Powell on 13 Jan 14
       
      Did not become rich because he made superglue.
  • died on Saturday night at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
  • cause was congestive heart failure,
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  • accident
  • experimenting with acrylates for use in clear plastic gun-sights during World War II.
  • In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner,
  • testing hundreds of compounds looking for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits
  • 910th compound on the list between two lenses on a refractometer to take a reading on the velocity of light through it,
  • could not separate the lenses.
  • Seven years later, the first incarnation of Super Glue, called Eastman 910, hit the market.
  • Dr. Coover’s secret was that he had invented Super Glue,
  • Dr. Coover was born in Newark, Del., on March 6, 1917.
  • He studied chemistry at Hobart College and then received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University.
  • Eastman Kodak Company until he retired and then worked as a consultant. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  • President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Dr. Coover held 460 patents by the end of his life. Nonetheless, Dr. Paul said, he didn’t mind being known by his “most outstanding” invention.
  • One of his proudest accomplishments, Dr. Paul added, was that his invention was used to treat injured soldiers during the Vietnam War.
  • Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich.
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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 
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  • AKA Harry Wesley Coover, Jr.Born: 6-Mar-1919Birthplace: Newark, DEDied: 19-Mar-2011Location of death: Kingsport, TNCause of death: Heart Failure
  • Executive summary: Invented Super Glue
  • American chemist Harry Coover discovered the adhesive properties of certain cyanoacrylates in 1951, leading to development of a quick-drying and strong-bonding paste now known as Super Glue
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  • improved eye shield for precision gunsights,
  • Kodak began marketing Coover's accident as an all-purpose adhesive in 1958
  • now used for sealing dental repairs, lesions, and bleeding ulcers, and for suture-free surgery.
  • Coover developed a cyanoacrylate spray based on the same compound,
  • sprayed onto soldiers' serious wounds to quickly halt bleeding,
  • brand name Eastman 910
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      Not much, but has alot of information
  • Father: Harry Wesley CooverWife: Muriel Zumbach (m. 1941, d. 2005, two sons, one daughter)Son: Harry Wesley Coover IIIDaughter: Melinda Coover PaulSon: Stephen Coover
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  • Harry W. Coover, and he has just passed away at the ripe old age of 94.
  • invented in 1942 as a side effect of another project to create transparent plastic gun sights.
  • sold as a super glue called Eastman 910.
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  • it was also used to quickly seal wounds on the battlefield, and for allowing new coral to grow underwater due to its ability to resist water
  • When Coover retired from Eastman Kodak he had 460 patents to his name.
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004,
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation given to him by President Obama.
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    Has a picture of the original super glue along with a good video.
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