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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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Profile: Thirtieth anniversary of first handheld cellular phone call [DP]: Kids Search ... - 1 views
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11:00 AM-12:00 Noon , Thirty years ago today a man stood on a New York City sidewalk and changed history. Martin Cooper, who worked for Motorola, invented the handheld cell phone. On April 3rd, 1973, he placed the first call to the competition.
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I called my counterpart at Bell Laboratories, a guy named Dr. Joel Engell, who was running the cellular telephone program at Bell Laboratories, and I told him, `Joel, I'm calling you from a real cellular telephone, a handheld unit.' Now I thought I could hear gnashing of teeth at the other end, but Joel was polite. And then I went on to other phone calls.
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Harry Coover was the accidental inventor of the household staple Super Glue.
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discovered the adhesive twice,
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born in 1917, in Newark, Delaware.
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Creator of the CD looks into the future: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views
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Mar. 13--James T. Russell invented the digital compact disc to listen to music, but his CDs revolutionized technology.
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Born in Bremerton, Wash., in 1931, Mr. Russell went to Reed College in Portland, Ore., and graduated with a degree in physics in 1953. He then joined General Electric labs in Richland, Wash.
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Mr. Russell said that if the recording industry is able to organize a proper future for selling music online, the audio disc will go extinct. He invented the digital compact disc in the late 1960s after joining the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland.
Father Of The Cellphone 'Unleashed' World's Callers From Copper Wires: Kids Search - po... - 0 views
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For years, my colleagues and I at Motorola had a dream. And that dream was that everyone someday would be free to talk wherever they were, would be unleashed from the copper wires that tied them to the network. And then the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, announced that they were about to make a decision.
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We call that first phone the brick.
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The battery life was only 20 minutes, but that was not a problem because you couldn't hold that heavy things up for more than 20 minutes.
Post-It Notes Evolve In Size And Color: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views
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Our last word in business is about a little product that requires concise writing. Thirty years ago this month, it hit stores across the country. Scientists at the office products conglomerate 3M had stumbled upon a new kind of adhesive, one that could stick to many surfaces and be pulled off easily and repositioned.
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Since 1980, they have been a top-selling office supply. They're no longer just three-by-three inches and light yellow in color. The little sticky pads come in eight sizes, and dozens of shapes and colors.
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heir contribution to human progress has been so great that Post-It note inventers Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver were inducted last month into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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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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NOTABLES IN SCIENCE: Kids Search - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views
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Harry Wesley Coover Jr., 94, inventor of Super Glue. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered. An assistant was distressed that some prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958. Cause not given, March 26.
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Although cornflakes were not new, they had never before been presented as a breakfast food. Kellogg was the founder and first president (1923–26) of Battle Creek College, and he opened the Miami-Battle Creek Sanitarium at Miami Springs, Fla., in 1931. He also wrote many medical books. Kellogg died on Dec. 14, 1943, in Battle Creek, Mich.
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(1852–1943). U.S. physician and health-food pioneer John H. Kellogg’s development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry. His brother W.K. Kellogg formed what became the Kellogg Company to market the cereals.
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