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General Electric's Nick Holonyak is credited with the invention of practical visible-spectrum LED in 1962. This is an excellent choice for both the old man chic trend in baby names and as a nod to Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prize organization. Kodak was the first company to make and use an OLED-fitted device back in 1987. Do you need help making a 3D model, or maybe some help figuring out how patents work? Desmond Morris is a zoologist and ethologist famous for his book The Naked Ape, in which he looks at humans as a species.
In 1951, large and costly smoke detectors were first sold in the United States, but they were viable options only in commercial and industrial facilities due to the high price tag. Radio-controlling has been around since the late 1890s. The work of English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Elsie Franklin was central to our understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, and viruses. This is a modern version of the Greek name Galenos, meaning calm. Charles Strite was the man to first introduce the electric toaster to the world — not just a toaster either, but a pop-up one that would spring release the bread when it was done. By 1974, around a million Americans own CB radio licenses and in just three years afterward, there were at least 20 million CB radios in operation. TV dinners had found another niche audience in dieters, who were glad for the built-in portion control. Well known to fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Trillian is the astrophysicist who abandons Arthur Dent at a party in favor of traveling the universe with Zaphod Beeblebrox. An engineer of Raytheon Corporation, Percy LeBaron Spencer, accidentally discovered the cooking power of magnetron while he was experimenting with vacuum tubes for radar systems.
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Star Wars has many heroes, but one underrated man of the hour is Galen Erso, the man who included an exhaust port to the reactor core of the Death Star. Videocassette recorders and video tape recorders are different things, although the former was based on the latter. At the other end, the sounds were converted back into data. Irmgard Flugge-Lotz was a German engineer and pioneer in automatic control theory. He accidentally realized the invention after one of his coworkers smoked directly into the fan of a generator in a room used to measure ion concentration. Hearing aids used to be quite large. He sketched out his idea; an artist, Bill Markham, designed it in 3-D, with pop-up buildings; and his friend Art Linkletter, the television host, endorsed it. From the precious stone, the word for which comes from the Latin ruber, meaning red. Regardless of its neatness, the prototype was proof that DVDs audio/video quality put VHS to shame. The consensus was that an honest person could withstand the heat better.
One of the latest inventions in the vacuum-cleaning world market is the autonomous robotic model made by Electrolux Trilobite in 1997 and introduced in 2001. The device was nicknamed Lazy Bones, and rightly so. Although most people often use the terms "Internet" and "World Wide Web" interchangeably, they are not the same things. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List and an estimated 80 million people watched the television series. DynaTAC stands for Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage. But as Jill Lepore wrote in The New Yorker in 2007, the redesign teams always had a hard time addressing the fundamental criticism of the game — that the only way to reward a player for virtuous acts was with money: "Save an Endangered Species: Collect $200, 000. Her name is from the ancient Irish goddess associated with fate and destiny, as well as war and death. They came out for sale in 1996 and it only took one year until the first feature film was put on DVD and released. Modern tape recording as we know it today was initially developed in Germany during the 1930s by the collaboration of IG Farben, AEG, and state radio RRG. Each can contained 16-ounces of bug bomb. In 1925, the Brooklyn-born entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye invented a machine for freezing packaged fish that would revolutionize the storage and preparation of food.
Russell Hobbs Company used the first automatic switch-off feature. Opioid pain relievers Word Craze. Nikola Tesla actually predicted this way back in 1909 when he said that soon enough, people would be able to transmit wireless messages. From that point forward, the cordless power tools market was flooded with innovations from various brands such as Milwaukee, Bosch, and Makita. Willamina comes from the Germanic name Willahelm meaning desire, helmet. When Esquire magazine praised the modern zipper as a tailoring idea for men in the 1950s, the small clothing fastener took off immediately. After its first introduction in 1939 by Willis Carrier at New York World's Fair, about a million units were sold. If Bruce Wayne is not your all-time favorite billionaire and undercover vigilante, then how about the Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, as your baby name inspiration? Magnus is a late Latin name that means great. This is an ancient Greek name meaning Dorian woman.
In 1948 the compressed sugar tablets are sold in small pocket sized tins until inventor Oscar Uxa patents a small mechanical box for dispensing the tablets. Then how about invoking Deanna Troy, the half-Human, half-Betazoid empath from this series of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Soon enough, Japanese-made boomboxes took over the European market. The number skyrocketed four years later to roughly 25 million. "And for a brand to remain viable, it has to evolve.
Around 14 million drip coffeemakers are sold in the U. each year. Also, Desmond is the player character in the Assassin's Creed series. The name of a powerful witch in Dragon Age, Morrigan, is raised in isolation and seeks comfort in nature. The first Zippo came into existence in 1932 free from expectation that it would become a status symbol among smokers. His oldest son, Joel, died in 2016. Around 30 years later, the Dragon Dictate became the first commercially successful speech-recognition device, selling at $9, 000 per unit. About 40% of American households have DVRs sitting next to their TVs, but the concern that viewers are skipping commercials is not that serious. Development and technologies surely made the appliance cheaper over time. She worked on celestial mechanics and trajectory computation for the Apollo space mission. It also improved upon earlier models.
In 2002, about a million DVRs were sold, which caused problems for TV advertising executives. Meanwhile, if Star Wars is more your thing, then Tobias Beckett can serve as your inspiration. The ubiquitous smartphone everyone uses today is the result of endless developments by many different companies. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Americans devoured resources on genealogy and ancestry, seeking new ways to understand their personal stories and ethnic identities. More than 550, 000 units were sold in the first year alone. Major improvements came along in 1960 when Dr. Belding Scribner invented the Teflon shunt that could be permanently implanted into patients' arms.