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  •   Here is a timeline of historical facts about the development of the air-conditioning industry you may find interesting and help you appreciate the impact this important industry has on our lives: 1881 -
  • 902 - Willis Carrier builds the first air conditioner to combat humidity inside a printing company.
  • 906 - Willis Carrier patents his invention calling it an "Apparatus for Treating Air."
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  • Sticky notes seem to be a part of everyday life. They are found in homes, classrooms and offices. You may be wondering…how did the sticky note come to be? Well here is the answer…According to Post-it®Brand’s website, Dr. Spencer Silver, a 3M scientist, developed a repositionable adhesive, but he didn’t know what to do with his discovery. It wasn’t until six years later that his colleague, Art Fry, thought of a use for the adhesive.
  • 1980 – Post-it® Notes are introduced in the United States 1987 – Post-it®Flags are introduced 1990 – Post-it® Notes celebrate their 10 year anniversary 1991 – Post-it® Pop Up Notes are introduced 1994 – Post-it® Easel Pads are introduced. 2003 – Post-it®Super Sticky Notes are developed and practically stick to almost               any surface 2009 – Post-it® Labels & Post-it Flag Highlighters are introduced 2010 – Post-it® Laptop Note Dispensers are introduced
  • fun facts about the history of the Post-it® Note
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  • A Post-it® Note weathered a flight from Las Vegas to Minneapolis on the nose of the plane. It endured speeds of 500 mph and temperatures as low as -56 degree Fahrenheit. It would take approximately 506,880,000 Post-it® Notes to circle the world once 1989 – A family left a Post-it® Note on their front door during Hurricane Hugo and it was their 3 days later 2000 – Llze Vitolina created a line of avant-garde evening wear made from Post-it® Notes. She made 11 dresses total, including a wedding gown, hats, and a bridal bouquet Today, the Post-it® Brand now has over 4,000 products.
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    the first fountain pen
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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.
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  • Earning the ENERGY STAR means products meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. By choosing ENERGY STAR certified heating and cooling equipment and taking steps to optimize its performance, you can enhance the comfort of your home while saving energy. Saving energy helps you save money on utility bills and protect our climate by helping prevent harmful carbon pollution and reducing other greenhouse gases.
  • he central air conditioner also needs a blower motor – which is usually part of the furnace – to blow the cool air through the duct system. The only way to ensure that your new air conditioner performs at its rated efficiency is to replace your heating system at the same time. It’s especially recommended if your furnace is over 15 years old. If you purchase a new energy-efficient air conditioner but connect it to an older furnace and blower motor, your system will not perform to its rated efficiency.  
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Montgomery County Daily: Harry Coover Jr., Inventor of Super Glue, Dies at Age 94 - 0 views

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  • (NewsCore) - The man who invented Super Glue has died in Tennessee at the age of 94, The New York Times reported Sunday. Harry Wesley Coover Jr., who discovered the super-sticky adhesive by accident during World War II, died of congestive heart failure Saturday night at his home in Kingsport. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004, Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation last year by President Barack Obama. Super Glue did not make him rich, however, as it did not become a commercial success until the patents had expired. Son-in-law Dr. Vincent E. Paul said, "He did very, very well in his career but he did not glean the royalties from Super Glue that you might think."
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  • Air conditioning (often referred to as aircon, AC or A/C) is the process of altering the properties of air (primarily temperature and humidity) to more favourable conditions. More generally, air conditioning can refer to any form of technological cooling, heating, ventilation, or disinfection that modifies the condition of air.[1]
  • An air conditioner is a major or home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to change the air temperature and humidity within an area (used for cooling and sometimes heating depending on the air properties at a given time). The cooling is typically done using a simple refrigeration cycle, but sometimes evaporation is used, commonly for comfort cooling in buildings and motor vehicles. In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air conditioning is referred to as "HVAC".
  • Air conditioning can also be provided by a simple process called free cooling which uses pumps to circulate a coolant
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  • ng. Common storage media are deep aquifers or a natural underground rock mass accessed via a cluster of small-diameter, heat exchanger equipped boreholes.
  • he heat pump is added-in because the temperature of the storage gradually increase during the cooling season, thereby declining in effectiveness. Free cooling and hybrid systems are mature
  • The basic concept behind air conditioning is said to have been applied in ancient Egypt, where reeds were hung in windows and were moistened with trickling water. The evaporation of water cooled the air blowing through the window, though this process also made the air more humid (also beneficial in a dry desert climate). In Ancient Rome, water from aqueducts was circulated through the walls of certain houses to cool them. Other techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. Modern air conditioning emerged from advances in chemistry during the 19th century, and the first large-scale electrical air conditioning was invented and used in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier. The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped enable the great migration to the Sun Belt in the US.
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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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      You even have sticky notes for your computers and phones!!!!!
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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.
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      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
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      In the fifth grade, Russell started building radios out of parts he scrounged form the neighbors.
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      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.
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    James T. Russell invented the CD! 
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