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Alana Pearce

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

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      Alana Pearce on 13 Jan 14
       
      They're cousins?! Sweet. 
  • In 1885 C. Harold Smith founded a company with his cousin, Edwin Binney.
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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.
Shelby Tenney

Harry W. Coover, Jr.: inventor of super glue and only person to win all three IRI award... - 1 views

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  • Coover was a long-time IRI member who served on the Board of Directors 1977-1983, serving as president 1981-1982. He was also the only person ever to win all three IRI awards. He was awarded the IRI Medal in 1984, just after his retirement from Eastman Kodak Company. Subsequently, he won the 1987 Maurice Holland Award for the best paper to appear in Research-Technology Management in 1986, for a paper entitled "Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success," published in the November-December 1986 issue of RTM. And he was awarded the 1999 IRI Achievement Award in recognition of his work with cyanoacrylate adhesives, as well as for "his prolific scientific achievements recorded in more than 60 papers and 460 patents." Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation shortly before his death, also for his work with cyanoacrylates.
Max N.

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  • Bradley grew up in a working-class household in Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • completing high school he found work as a draftsman before enrolling at the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1856, he secured employment at the Watson Company in Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • company was shuttered during the recession of 1858, he entered business for himself as a mechanical draftsman and patent agent
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  • pursued lithography and in 1860, he set up the first color lithography shop in Springfield, Massachusetts
  • moved forward with an idea he had for a board game which he called The Checkered Game of Life, an early version of what later became The Game of Life.
  • 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame along with George Ditomassi of Milton Bradley Company. Through the 20th century the company he founded in 1860, Milton Bradley Company dominated the production of American games, with titles like Candyland, Operation, and Battleship. The company is now a subsidiary of Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Hasbro.
  • In search of a lucrative alternative project in which to employ his drafting skills, Bradley found inspiration from an imported board game given to him by a friend. Concluding that he could produce and market a similar game to American consumers, Milton Bradley released The Checkered Game of Life in the winter of 1860.
  • Bradley personally sold his first run of several hundred copies in one two-day period in New York; by 1861, consumers had bought over 45,000 copies.
  • While the structure of play used in The Checkered Game of Life differed little from previous board games, Bradley's game embraced a radically different concept of success. Earlier children's games, such as the popular Mansion of Happiness developed in Puritan Massachusetts, were concerned entirely with providing an attractive venue from which to promote moral virtue. But Bradley preferred to define success in secular business terms consistent with America's emerging focus on "the causal relationship between character and wealth." This approach, which depicted life as a quest for accomplishment in which personal virtues provided a means to an end, rather than a point of focus, complemented America's burgeoning fascination with obtaining wealth in the years following the Civil War.
  • Bradley established a set of rules to play croquet in 1866. Bradley was one of the marketers of the zoetrope, a spinning slotted drum with pre-printed images to create the illusion of motion pictures. Though this was not definitely known as of November 2010, Bradley might have been awarded the patent for the one-arm paper cutter.
    • Katie Gatliff
      Katie Gatliff on 14 Jan 14
       
      Milton also created the paper cutter and the rules to croquet
  • Katie Gatliff on 14 Jan 14
     
    this is really good information. wish i had looked on Wikipedia sooner
Alana Pearce

Binney, Edwin - Overview, Personal Life, Career Details, Chronology: Edwin Binney, Soci... - 0 views

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  • A pioneer in the manufacture of carbon black, EdwinBinney was a founder of Binney & Smith, better known today for its Crayola products used by millions of children. Smith’s innovations made black automobile tires, electric light carbons, and many other technological advances possible. He was also active in many natural gas companies, was instrumental in the development of parts of the state of Florida, and was a noted philanthropist.
  • Binney was known not only for his impeccable business sense but also for his integrity and good will. During the Depression of the 1930s, for example, Binney & Smith gave destitute local farmers work hand-labeling boxes of crayons, a tradition that continued for many years. While his partner Smith spent much of his time traveling and selling, Binney was known as a quiet man who used his time to diversify the company at home. Binney died in Gainesville, Florida, on December 17, 1934, while visiting a grandson at the University of Florida.
  • On October 16, 1887, in Brooklyn, New York, he married Alice Stead of London, England, with whom he had four children: Dorothy, Helen (whose husband, Allan Kitchel, succeeded Binney as president of Binney & Smith), Mary, and Edwin Jr. Binney enjoyed spending time in the state of Florida, where he owned large orange groves in St. Lucie County. He was an important force in the opening of the east coast port of Ft. Pierce in 1930. He enjoyed deep sea cruising, fishing, hunting, and designing sail and motor boats.
  • Alana Pearce on 10 Jan 14
     
    Bios of Binney/Edwin! 
Nathanael Nix

NAE Website - Martin Cooper - 0 views

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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.
Nathanael Nix

Martin Cooper, Father of the Cellular Phone | High Tech History - 0 views

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  • Martin Cooper, who turns 82 on December 26th, is an electrical engineer – having gained his Master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957.
  • Cooper’s inspiration for undertaking the project was the Star Trek television series, in which a small, hand-held ”communicator” device was used very much in the manner of a portable phone.
  • As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973 there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter – probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.
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  • Interestingly, the first person he called was Joel Engel, his chief rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs, to tell him he was calling on a portable phone.
  • The original phone weighed a gargantuan 30 ounces, and was referred to as the “Brick.”
  • With nearly four decades of success in the telecommunications industry, Cooper’s guiding philosophy is to look to its bright future: It’s very exciting to be a part of a movement toward making broadband available to people with the same freedom to be anywhere that they have for voice communications today. People rely heavily on the Internet for their work, entertainment, and communication, but they need to be unleashed.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good biography about Martin Cooper and the invention of the cell phone. It also has some pictures of him, the phone, and also one of Joe Engal.
Katlyn Humphries

Procter & Gamble Company -- Britannica School - 0 views

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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
  • Katlyn Humphries on 16 Jan 14
     
    britannica's insight on procter and gamble
justin creed

How Are Adhesive Sticky Note Pads and Cubes Made/Printed? - Quality Logo Products, Inc. - 0 views

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  • Sticky notes are much more than simple notepads! If used correctly, they can be ultimate portable marketing tools. Sticky notes were originally marketed to workplaces, but they can now be found everywhere. At home, they come in handy for grocery lists, phone numbers, to-do lists, and reminders. They’re used in magazine advertising to highlight a new product’s advantages; if the reader desires, he or she can peel away the sticky note and take the ad. They also make great bookmarks for students! Sticky notes' functionality leads users to wonder how these little unassuming notes came about and how they are made.
  • Up to that point, 3M had only ever produced rolled products like adhesive tape, so the company’s engineers had to create and build new machinery to accommodate the flat pads and eventually cubes of paper. Then they had to find a way to apply the adhesive without gumming up the machinery. While this was a very expensive venture, it also gave 3M market dominance because few companies had the budget to back such an undertaking.
  • Fry was a member of his church’s choir and often marked pages in his hymnal with bits of paper that almost always fell out. What if he could stick the bits of paper to the pages of the hymnal without damaging the book? Dr. Silver’s glue seemed to be the answer!
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  • The idea for sticky notes originated by accident. Dr. Spencer Silver, a Senior Scientist in the 3M Corporation’s Research Lab, discovered a repositionable adhesive in 1968. It hadn’t been his goal to do so, because at the time 3M’s philosophy was "the stickier the better.
  • After several sample tests across the country, Post-It® Notes were launched nationwide in 1980. Nearly 30 years later, the line has expanded from the original square, canary-yellow sticky notes to 61 other colors and 25 different shapes; they now generate more than one billion dollars of revenue every year! The vast success of sticky notes is no fluke.
  • One thing is a definite: you have thousands of exciting options to choose from!
Kyler Nunley

Milton Bradley Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com - 0 views

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  • Bradley printed and personally sold a new parlour game, The Checkered Game of Life, which became so profitable that he formed Milton Bradley and Company (1864) to print games and game manuals
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      Kyler Nunley on 17 Jan 14
       
      lots of back story
  • Katie Gatliff on 09 Jan 14
     
    this isn't all that great but has a few bits of good information about his career in board game making
  • Kyler Nunley on 17 Jan 14
     
    lots of back story  
Nathanael Nix

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

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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

The FCC Kids Zone - History of Cell Phones - 0 views

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  • Dr Martin Cooper, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset. Dr. Cooper, former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, and the first person to make a call on a portable cellular phone.
  • Dr. Cooper set up a base station in New York with the first working prototype of a cellular telephone, the Motorola Dyna-Tac. Mr. Cooper and Motorola took the phone technology to New York to show the public.
  • The cellular business was a $3 million market 25 years ago and has grown increasingly to close to a $30 billion per year industry.
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good website (even though it looks like its for little kids) It tells you about some interesting facts about the cell phone and how it cam to be.
Nathanael Nix

Who invented the cell phone? Cell Phone Inventor Martin Cooper - 0 views

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  • It was April 3, 1973 that the first working prototype of the cell phone was introduced. This was also the day of the first cell phone call being placed by Mr. Cooper. This first prototype was a Motorola Dyna-Tac Phone. The Dyna-Tac cell phone was: 9x5x1.175 inches Had 30 circuit boards Weighed 2.5 pounds A talk time of 35 minutes A recharge time of 10 hours Its only features were talk, listen,and dial
  • Martin Cooper is now the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of a company called Array Communications Incorporated. The main mission of his company is to free the people of the constraints of specific places in which calls can be made, and to do away with the copper wires that constrain them.
  • Array Communications has developed a core adaptive antenna that will increase the basic coverage of any cellular system. They have also created a personal broadband system called i-Burst. This system allows for mobile access to the internet that is affordable for everyone. Martin Cooper had a vision for the nation. He desired mobile capabilities that freed the individual from the constraints of even the wireled landline phones. The race for mobile took serious strides in the 1960′s and 1970′s when Motorola and Bell vied to translate technology to actual application.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about who invented the cell phone, Martin Cooper. It has some very good facts and information about him and the cell phone.
Nathanael Nix

Inventor Of Cell Phone: 'We Are Just Getting Started' | Here & Now - 0 views

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  • Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world’s first cell phone call. He stood on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, with a 10-inch-long, 2.5-pound phone nicknamed “the brick” and called his engineering nemesis at the much bigger Bell Labs.
  • Cooper’s latest product, which he created with his wife Arlene Harris, is an ultra-simple phone for seniors called the Jitterbug. “I hate the concept of trying to build a universal device that does all things for all people, because then it doesn’t do any of them very well,” Cooper said. “I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do – that is so easy to use that we don’t even have to think about it. That’s what the dream is.”
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good informational site about the cell phone, and even one of his other inventions, the Jitterbug, a cell phone for elderly people.
Nathanael Nix

How a Pop-Bottle Invention Resulted in the Cell Phone | Martin Cooper | Big Think - 0 views

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  • For 100 years, people who wanted to talk to other people were wired to their homes, they were latched – or chained to their desks and really didn’t have much in the way of freedom. That we were, in fact, giving people communications in their vehicles: even then, it’s not much better than being tied to your desk. You’re still trapped in your car. So we found out from people, like the Superintendent of Police in Chicago, who told us that he had a real problem. His officers had to be in communication, the only way they could talk was to be in their cars, and yet the people they were protecting were walking on the streets. He asked us, “How can I have my officers connected and still mingling with the people?” And we discovered this was true of people managing airports, people managing businesses, real estate people. So, we became aware of the fact that real communications is portable communications. Put the device on the person. 
  • I was four years old, lived in Winnipeg, Canada, where it’s very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer. And I look at these boys with a magnifying glass. And they were burning a piece of paper by focusing the rays of the sun onto this paper through a magnifying glass. And I just had to know how that worked. And so I did the obvious thing, I took a soda pop bottle and broke it and tried to make a magnifying glass out of it. And that’s when I realize now, that I had discovered that I was going to be an engineer because I want to know how everything works and I always have. 
  • When I was nine years old, I invented—at least I think I invented—a train that could travel through a tunnel from one end of the country to the other. And what was unique about this train was two things. I had learned about friction, and so we had to get rid of friction. And so I thought, why don’t we support this train on a magnetic field? Because I knew two magnets, when they are close together, force themselves apart. And the second thing is if we’re going to get rid of all friction, we have to get rid of the air. So, this train traveled in a tunnel that was totally evacuated. It was in a vacuum. And amazingly enough, they are just starting to build trains like that, maybe without the vacuum, but with magnetic levitation. So, maybe it wasn’t such a dumb idea after all. 
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  • Science has been a part of my life from the time I was four years old... just knowing how things work, having a curiosity. And my curiosity has been limitless and that’s quite a handicap because there are times in your life when you have to specialize. But I literally want to know everything and only in recent years have I finally realized that I’m never going to know everything. In fact, the older I get, and the more stupid I find out that I am. But science, the understanding of how things work, what things are, has been crucially important to me. So, I started out with fantasy; I’ve always loved science fiction. I’ve always known that I was going to be an engineer, so I went to a technical high school so that I could take every kind of shop and learn how to work with my hands, learned about materials, and I always knew that I was going to go to an engineering school and get an engineering degree. 
  • Science can be interesting. Science can be fun. If, in fact, teachers learn how to present science in that way and learn how to make people curious and make it enjoyable, I think more people will get involved. But it’s not important that everybody become a scientist. Everybody doesn’t have to be a mathematician. Make it interesting enough so the people that have that interest, that have that talent do latch onto the wonderful world that will open up if they dig into science and mathematics. The teaching of science, mathematics, of anything—there really is no difference from a game. If you make a game dull, if you make it uninteresting, if you don’t have something that grabs people... then they won’t get interested and they’ll go do something else. So, I don’t see why teaching should be any different than creating games. Creating a curriculum ought to be the same as creating a game. Make it interesting, make it fun, make it a challenge; all of those things. All of the attributes of playing a game are the things that draw people into learning and I think that’s what we ought to do. We ought to somehow coalesce the concept of teaching with the concept of game playing, and we’re going to find that a lot more of our youngsters are going to get interested in learning and specifically about science, mathematics, technology.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about Martin Cooper and the Cell Phone invention, it even has a pretty nifty video about him.
Nathanael Nix

Engineer,Martin Cooper,Inventor of the Mobile Phone, - 0 views

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  • Name: Motorola Dyna-Tac Size: 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches Weight: 2.5 pounds Display: None Number of Circuit Boards: 30 Talk time: 35 minutes Recharge Time: 10 hours Features: Talk, listen, dial
  • (1973)
  • April 3, 1973
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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.
    • Nathanael Nix
      Nathanael Nix on 10 Jan 14
       
      That's pretty evil, don't you think?
  • Nathanael Nix on 10 Jan 14
     
    This is a good website about the phone invention.
Heather Purpera

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  • James T. Russell James T. Russell (Left), born in Bremerton Washington, is a very influential inventor in the music industry. Russell, an avid music fan, frustrated by the poor quality of his records, set out to create a means of playing music that would have better longevity. With this goal in mind, Russell created the first “digital-to-optical recording and playback system,” what we know now as the compact disc. He used light to read the product instead of actually touching the material. The invention was finished in the late 1960s, and was originally patented by 1970. By 1985, Russell had over 26 patents on the invention, and sold the licenses to companies like Phillips Electronics, to produce the compact disc.
  • The music industry has been changed and has had great advancements throughout history. One of the main forms of advancement stems from the ways in which the industry has faced recording, and publication. Society has seen the industry veer from the standard eight-track, to the record, to the tape, to CD, to MP3, etc., and with each new advancement, the entire industry changes. It isn’t uncommon for a person to see many changes of medium within a lifetime. With each change comes better quality, more innovation, and more possibility for further progression.
  • The Compact Disc The invention of the CD has had one of the most influential, and timely effects on the music industry. The CD came into the technology scene in the 1980s. Philips Electronics N.V first produced it in 1980. The invention originated in the computer industry in 1980, and took over the floppy disk. It could contain the same amount of information as 1,000 floppy disks, thus it became a very popular alternative. Soon, it also became influential in the music industry in 1982, when technology was invented that allowed the disc to hold audio files with a far better sound quality than was prior possible. The compact disc is read by a laser beam, which leads to a more accurate and qualified playback. In addition, compact discs allowed the user to skip between songs with out using the fast forward/ rewind button, a feature that wasn’t available on the magnetic cassette tape.
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