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Garrett Warren

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    info on seat belts from britanica.com
Jessi Bennett

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  • Cellophane, invented in the early 1900s, has now blossomed to be used in all aspects of our lives; from cooking, food protection, to wrapping presents.
  • The invention of cellophane was an accident that has been incredibly useful.
  • Today, food packaging, tape and even medical supplies owe their existence to the invention of cellophane.
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    Fun facts about cellophane
Chad Amico

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  • Most Famous Invention Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Arthur L. Fry
  • United States
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  • Year Inducted into the
  • Inventors Hall of Fame 2010
  • Art Fry was a researcher at 3M he learned the adhesive microspheres that was developed by Spencer Silver. This microspheres were pressure-sensitive, but had a low degree of adhesion. He coated paper with the adhesive and made repositionable notes and thus he created Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Post-it notes were released to the national market in 1980. In 1981, 3M named Post-it notes its Outstanding New Product. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award, given to teams who create major new products that are significantly profitable. In 2003 the Post-it Note was a central role in a new play titled Inside a Bigger Box that premiered in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
  • Arthur Fry is a retired United States inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries. Fry was born in Minnesota, and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City. He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. During his childhood, he reputedly made his first foray into engineering by building toboggans from scrap lumber. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award
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    ARTHUR FRY BIOGRAPHY!?
Nathanael Nix

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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.
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    This is a good website about Martin Cooper and the Cell Phone invention, it even has a pretty nifty video about him.
Chad Amico

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  • Everyone knows what the post- it notes are and  almost everyone use them in their normal life,but these amazing invention was not a planned product. Unlike other inventions no one got the idea and then stayed up many  night trying to make it happen, this was a total mistake.
  • In 1970 a scientist named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories.He was working really hard trying to find a super stong adhesive, but instead  he developed an even weaker adhesive than what 3M already had, but he did not threw  it away.4 years passed until Arthur Fry came to the rescue!!!Arthur was singing in the church's choir and he used a paper to remind him his place in the anthom, but the reminder kept falling out of the book. He remembered Silver's adhesive,and he applied it to the paper   and it was a total success because the reminder stayed in place and he could take it out without damaging the pages or the reminder.In 1980 3M began selling  the post it notes.Even though now  you can buy the post it notes of  many colors,sizes and shapes the original ones were a small square in canary yellow color.
  • Arthur Fry was born on august of 1931 in  Minnesota, but  grew up  in a small town in Iowa and later in Kansas City. When Arthur finished school in 1950 he moved back to Minnesota to  the University of Minnesota to study majoring in Chemical Enginneering. In 1953, he began working for 3M in new project development while he was still undergraduate and worked  there until 1990. Now he has 3 children and 5 grandchildren and is very famous for a inventetion of  what is probably the most  important office supply product ever since the paperclip.
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    BIO AND MORE POST IT NOTES
De Anna Jo Powell

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  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr., the man who invented Super Glue, died on Saturday night at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
  • when he was experimenting with acrylates for use in clear plastic gun-sights during World War II
  • In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner, who was working with Dr. Coover at Eastman Kodak’s laboratory in Tennessee, was testing hundreds of compounds looking for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits
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  • Seven years later, the first incarnation of Super Glue, called Eastman 910, hit the market.
  • Dr. Coover was born in Newark, Del., on March 6, 1917.
  • chemistry at Hobart College and then received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University. He worked at the Eastman Kodak Company until he retired and then worked as a consultant. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Last year, President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich
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    good article about Harry Coover
Nathanael Nix

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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.
Jessi Bennett

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Nathanael Nix

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  • The mobile phone may be seen as a new technology in our day, but the idea was actually first conceived in the year 1908.
  • This statement is only true because the mobile phone is actually a high-tech radio. In 1908 a man named Nathan B. Stubblefield who lived in Murray, Kentucky applied for the U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone; he originally applied his patent to only radio telephones.
  • Martin Cooper did not make the first working mobile phone, he made the first portable mobile phone.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a good informational sight that has a lot of facts about Martin Cooper, it has some very good information to tell you about Martin Cooper.
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Garrett Warren

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    good info
Kyler Nunley

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Mary Gilliam

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    Good website for John Harvey Kellogg!
Tuffer Jordan

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  • Mar. 13--James T. Russell invented the digital compact disc to listen to music, but his CDs revolutionized technology.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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    Good information about James T. Russell's CD
Jessi Bennett

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  • Harry Coover was the accidental inventor of the household staple Super Glue.
  • discovered the adhesive twice,
  • born in 1917, in Newark, Delaware.
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  • studied chemistry at Hobart College and later completed a master's and a PhD in the same subject at Cornell University.
  • working as a young chemist for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, during the Second World War when he first came across Super Glue.
  • very difficult to test as it stuck to everything it touched. After a few abortive attempts to put the compound into moulds, Coover eventually gave up on it.
  • 1951 he was working at Eastman Kodak's laboratory in Tennessee, as part of a team testing compounds to find a heat-resistant polymer for use in aircraft cockpits.
  • destroyed an expensive piece of optical equipment by accidentally bonding its lenses with a drop of cyanoacrylate,
  • He glued together two metal parts and held on to the lower while it was lifted into the air. When he was lowered down, the presenter Barry Moore suggested they both try together.
  • marketing the adhesive as Eastman 910 in 1958
  • "It suddenly struck me that what we had was not a casting material but a super glue,"
  • Eastman 910 was soon being used in a variety of ways, but it quickly became known for its medical applications.
  • glue only really became a commercial success after the patents had expired and several other companies began developing their own versions.
  • especially its medical applications in the Vietnam War, when many medics carried a spray version of the glue to close wounds quickly. "There are lots of soldiers who would have bled to death," he said.
  • Coover worked for Eastman Kodak until he retired as vice president of the chemicals division for development in 1984. He held more than 460 patents.
  • Harry Coover Jr, inventor of Super Glue, was born on March 6, 1917. He died on March 26, 2011, aged 94
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    Good information about Harry Coover
Nathanael Nix

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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.
  • 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.
  • Nathanael Nix on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good website about Martin Cooper and the invention of the first cell phone, it has some pretty good information.
Garrett Warren

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