Patents & Inventions
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Hammack

The second method historically didn’t fare better. The earliest recorded version of the steam paddle wheel device is from 1629, when Giovanni Branca, an Italian engineer, proposed a giant boiler, ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions April 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Kristy Hamilton

The Bare Bones WHEN I FIRST visited the archives at the California Academy of Sciences, my purpose was purely investigative. I was there to introduce myself to their scientists so ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Dunn, Richard; Higgitt, Rebekah

His certainty came from having used thirty-four sets of lunar observations to establish its position. Fixing geographical locations accurately was a lengthy process, since the best observations could only be ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Bainbridge, Jr.

* * * When Lincoln visited Hartford, the Spencer rifle was nothing more than a dream reduced to paper accompanied by a model. The guns coming from the Colt and ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 1,2023 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Harold Evans [EVANS, HAROLD]

In 2002, the Bank of America merged with NationsBank of Charlotte in a $48 billion agreement and the following year merged with FleetBoston Financial Corporation, with almost $1 trillion in ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions March 21,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:K.R. Scott [Scott, K.R.]

Brazing rods in a variety of diameters are sold by the pound at any welding supply. The brass balls where purchased from: http://www.grandbrass.com/ Secondary Coil: 1.875” x 10” #26 AWG ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Frank Moss [Moss, Frank]

FURTHER REFLECTIONS Research programs, whether in university, government, or industrial labs, commonly fall into one of two categories: basic research or applied research. However, just like its researchers, the Media ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions December 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Gertner, Jon [Gertner, Jon]

BY 1964, there were about 75 million telephones in the United States, meaning that Bell Labs had now created the means for about 2,500,000,000,000,000 possible interconnections between subscribers.5 In light ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions November 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Curt Gabrielson

A Few More Tinkering Considerations By the way, lists are basic to any tinkering operation. When we come up with a new tinkering activity at the Workshop, the first thing ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Albert Jack

SUPERSTARS WHO WERE TOLD NOT TO GIVE UP THEIR DAY JOBS The Grand Ole Opry is a country music stage concert founded in 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Opry, which ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions September 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-11 | Author:Kenneth Silverman [Silverman, Kenneth]

For the first six months after his agreement with Kendall, Morse became little more than a bystander to the development of his invention. Kendall rapidly set to work forming or ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Michelle Malkin [Malkin, Michelle]

Back to the Future: The Resurrection of Vitrum Flexile Remember the legend of the hapless inventor who lost his head when he brought a sample of unbreakable glass to the ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions June 5,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Ashlee Vance [Vance, Ashlee]

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Ashlee Vance

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 24,2015 )