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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.
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      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
Heather Purpera

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  • James T. Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder.[1]
  • Russell's optical digital inventions were available publicly from 1970. Early optical recording technology, which forms the physical basis of videodisc, CD and DVD technology, was first published/filed by Gregg in 1958 and Philips researchers, Kramer and Compaan, in 1969. It is debatable to say whether Russell's concepts, patents, prototypes, and literature[citation needed] instigated and in some measure guided the optical digital revolution.[4]
  • Russell also invented an optical, massively parallel, memory system that uses no moving parts. This concept is taught in six patents[citatio
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  • He has developed concepts for a novel transportation system and urban structure[citation needed]. In July 2007, Russell held 54 US patents.
Morgan Pearson

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cars Nils Bohlin seat belt

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  • Morgan Pearson on 14 Jan 14
     
    Cars have come a long way in the last decade.
anthony tarango

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    a awesome cite talking about 5 wonderful topics like facts, or debates,or what animal eats what, and who invented it?
Katlyn Humphries

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    Britannica has great information on the company
Nathanael Nix

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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.
Jessi Bennett

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  • Invented in 1908, cellophane came from Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger's desire to create a clear, flexible, waterproof film that could be applied to cloth.
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    Hall of fame jacques brandenberger
Ben Lews

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    Ebsco William Wrigley Jr
Nathanael Nix

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  • Martin Cooper
  • Martin "Marty" Cooper is an American pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management.
  • Education: Illinois Institute of Technology (1957), Illinois Institute of Technology (1950)
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    If you look to the right on this Google search, you will see some good information, might not be a lot, but its good.
Trey Mcintyre

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  • he first modern air conditioning system was developed in 1902 by a young electrical engineer named Willis Haviland Carrier. It was designed to solve a humidity problem at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn, N.Y. Paper stock at the plant would sometimes absorb moisture from the warm summer air, making it difficult to apply the layered inking techniques of the time. Carrier treated the air inside the building by blowing it across chilled pipes. The air cooled as it passed across the cold pipes, and since cool air can't carry as much moisture as warm air, the process reduced the humidity in the plant and stabilized the moisture content of the paper. Reducing the humidity also had the side benefit of lowering the air temperature -- and a new technology was born.
  • simple scientific principle. The rest is achieved with the application of a few clever mechanical techniques. Actually, an air conditioner is very similar to another appliance in your home -- the refrigerator. Air conditioners don't have the exterior housing a refrigerator relies on to insulate its cold box. Instead, the walls in your home keep cold air in and hot air out.Let's move on to the next page where we'll discover what happens to all that hot air when you use
bailey spoonemroe

Wrigley | Popular Chewing Gum and Confections: Orbit, Extra, Skittles and More | Mars - 0 views

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  • bailey spoonemroe on 15 Jan 14
     
    more over what he made not only gum but plenty more
Morgan Pearson

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  • Morgan Pearson on 15 Jan 14
     
    Information about Nils Bohlin and his invention, the three-point seat belt. 
bailey spoonemroe

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  • bailey spoonemroe on 15 Jan 14
     
    some of the lables of wriglys chewing gum all difrent ones  
Ben Lews

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    the health care part about chewing gum
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    A timeline about his life
Trey Mcintyre

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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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