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| x Zipper |
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Gideon Sundback |
A zipper (British English: zip or (rarely) zip fastener) is a popular device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric. It is used in clothing (e.g. jackets and jeans), luggage and other bags, sporting goods, camping gear (e.g., tents and sleeping...
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| x Snap fastener |
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A snap fastener (also called snap, popper, and press stud) is a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing. A circular lip under one disc fits into a groove on the top of the other, holding them fast until a...
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| x Button |
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In clothing and fashion design, a button is a small disc, typically round, object usually attached to an article of clothing in order to secure an opening, or for ornamentation. Functional buttons work by slipping the button through a fabric or...
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| x Eunicycle |
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Trevor Blackwell |
A Eunicycle is a computer controlled, partially self-balancing, motorized unicycle invented by Trevor Blackwell. It uses a computer control system similar to the one used by the Segway HT that servos its wheel to balance itself by keeping the...
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| x Watt steam engine |
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The Watt steam engine (alternatively known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine) was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. Improving on the design of...
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| x HPV vaccine |
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a vaccine that prevents infection with certain species of human papillomavirus associated with the development of cervical cancer, genital warts, and some less common cancers (e.g., anal, vulvar, vaginal, penile...
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| x Icy Ball |
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IcyBall was a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (filed 1927, granted 1929), and manufactured by American Powel...
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| x Fresno Scraper |
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The Fresno Scraper was invented in 1883 by the Scottish immigrant and entrepreneur James Porteous who, having worked with farmers in Fresno, California, had recognised the dependence of the Fresno Valley on irrigation and the requirement for a more...
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| x Supertitle |
Surtitles, also known as supertitles, are translated or transcribed lyrics/dialogue projected above a stage or displayed on a screen, commonly used in opera or other musical performances. The word "surtitle" comes from the French language "sur",...
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| x Artificial pacemaker |
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A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart. The...
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| x Gauer Metal Products, Inc |
Gauer Metal Products Inc. is a design and manufacturing company headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States. The business was founded in 1946 by Walter W. Gauer.
Gauer Metal Products manufactures products ranging from: insert fireplaces...
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| x Mouse |
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Douglas Engelbart |
A computer input device that senses the two-dimensional displacemnt of a controlling hand.
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| x Electrical generator |
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In electricity generation, an electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The reverse conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy is done by a motor;...
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| x Jedlik's dynamo |
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Ányos Jedlik |
In 1827, Anyos Jedlik started experimenting with electromagnetic rotating devices which he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854) both the stationary and the...
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| x Safety razor |
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King C. Gillette |
A safety razor is a razor where the skin is protected from all but the very edge of the blade.
These razors are referred to as "safety" razors as opposed to the straight razor which is sometimes referred to as a "cut-throat razor." It is often...
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| x Xerography | Chester Carlson |
Xerography (or electrophotography) is a dry photocopying technique invented by Chester Carlson in 1938, for which he was awarded U.S. Patent 2,297,691 on October 6, 1942. Carlson originally called his invention electrophotography. It was later...
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| x Phonograph |
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Thomas Edison |
The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.
Usage of these terms is not uniform across the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, this device...
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| x Incandescent light bulb |
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Thomas Edison |
The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is a source of electric light that works by incandescence (a general term for heat-driven light emissions which includes the simple case of black body radiation). An electric...
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| x Penicillin |
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Alexander Fleming | Sep 28, 1928 |
Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they were the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious...
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| x Telephone |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
The telephone (from the Greek: τῆλε, tēle, "far" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice") is a telecommunications device that is used to transmit and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound (most commonly speech) between two or more people conversing. It...
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| x Bélinographe | Édouard Belin | ||||
| x Phonautograph | Leon Scott | ||||
| x Franklin stove |
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Benjamin Franklin |
A Franklin stove, named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin, is a metal-lined fireplace. It has baffles in the rear to improve the airflow, providing more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open fireplace. It is also known as a circulating stove...
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| x Lightning rod |
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Benjamin Franklin |
A lightning rod (USA) or lightning conductor (UK) is a single component in a lightning protection system. In addition to rods placed at regular intervals on the highest portions of a structure, a lightning protection system typically includes a...
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| x Bifocals |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are most commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hypermetropia, and/or astigmatism.
Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the...
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| x Hills Hoist |
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Lance Hill |
The Hills Hoist is an Australian version of the rotary clothes line, the distinguishing feature of which is a crown and pinion winding mechanism allowing the clothesline to be lowered and raised. The hoist mechanism was devised by Adelaide inventor...
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| x Boyer–Moore string search algorithm | J Strother Moore |
The Boyer–Moore string search algorithm is a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, and it has been the standard benchmark for the practical string search literature. It was developed by Bob Boyer and J Strother Moore in 1977. The...
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| x Suffix array | Udi Manber |
In computer science, a suffix array is an array of integers giving the starting positions of suffixes of a string in lexicographical order.
Consider the string
of length 12, that ends with a sentinel letter $, appearing only once and less than any...
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| x Suffix tree |
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In computer science, a suffix tree (also called suffix trie, PAT tree or, in an earlier form, position tree) is a data structure that presents the suffixes of a given string in a way that allows for a particularly fast implementation of many...
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| x Gore-Tex |
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Bill Gore |
Gore-Tex is a waterproof/breathable fabric, and a registered trademark of W.L. Gore & Associates. It was co-invented by Wilbert L. Gore (1912-1986), Rowena Taylor, and Gore's son, Robert W. Gore for use in space. Robert Gore was granted U.S. Patent...
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| x Assault rifle |
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An assault rifle is a rifle designed for combat, with selective fire (capable of shooting in both fully automatic and semi automatic modes). Assault rifles are the standard infantry weapons in most modern armies, having largely superseded or...
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| x Abacus |
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An abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes. Today, abacuses are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans...
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| x Assembly line |
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Ford Motor Company |
An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods....
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| x Analytical engine | Charles Babbage | 1837 |
The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837, but Babbage continued to work on the design...
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| x Aircraft |
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Wright brothers |
An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to fly by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift (as with balloons, blimps and dirigibles) or by using the...
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| x MMR vaccine |
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Maurice Hilleman |
The MMR vaccine is a mixture of three live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella (also called German measles). It is generally administered to children around the age of one year, with a...
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| x Segway PT |
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Dean Kamen |
The Segway PT is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle invented by Dean Kamen. It is produced by Segway Inc. of New Hampshire, USA. The name "Segway" is a homophone of "segue" (a smooth transition, literally Italian for "follows"). PT is an...
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| x LP album |
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Peter Carl Goldmark |
Long play (LP) record albums are 33⅓ rpm vinyl Gramophone records (phonograph records), generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for recorded music until the compact...
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| x Magnetic core memory |
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Dr. An Wang |
Magnetic core memory, or ferrite-core memory, is an early form of random access computer memory. It uses small magnetic ceramic rings, the cores, through which wires are threaded to store information via the polarity of the magnetic field they...
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| x Stencil duplicator |
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Thomas Edison |
The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo) is a low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.
Along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, mimeographs were for many decades used to...
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| x Electricity distribution |
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Thomas Edison |
Electricity distribution is the final stage in the delivery (before retail) of electricity to end users. A distribution system's network carries electricity from the transmission system and delivers it to consumers. Typically, the network would...
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| x Ignition system |
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Gottlob Honold |
An ignition system is a system for igniting a fuel-air mixture. It is best known in the field of internal combustion engines but also has other applications, e.g. in oil-fired and gas-fired boilers. The earliest internal combustion engines used a...
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| x Vehicle Headlights | Gottlob Honold | ||||
| x Prestressed concrete |
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Eugène Freyssinet |
Prestressed concrete is a method for overcoming the concrete's natural weakness in tension. It can be used to produce beams, floors or bridges with a longer span than is practical with ordinary reinforced concrete. Prestressing tendons (generally of...
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| x Maxim gun |
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Hiram Stevens Maxim |
The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born Briton Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884.
The mechanism of the Maxim gun used the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one. This made...
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| x Mousetrap |
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Hiram Stevens Maxim |
A mousetrap is a specialized type of animal trap designed primarily to catch mice; however, it may also trap other small animals. Mousetraps are usually (though not necessarily) set in an indoor location where there is a suspected infestation of...
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| x Monoplane |
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Louis Blériot |
A monoplane is an aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the "ordinary" form for a fixed wing aircraft.
The main distinction in types of monoplane is where the wings attach...
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| x The Bubble Project |
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The Bubble Project |
The Bubble Project, as proclaimed by its manifesto, aims to counteract corporate marketing and advertisement messages in public spaces.
The project was conceived by an artist and art director who originally printed 15,000 stickers that look like...
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| x Backhoe loader |
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Joseph Cyril Bamford |
Backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, and commonly shortened to backhoe, is an engineering vehicle, which consists of a tractor, fitted with a shovel/bucket on the front and a small backhoe on the back. Due to its (relatively) small size and...
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| x Transmission Control Protocol |
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Robert E. Kahn |
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components, with Internet Protocol (IP), of the suite, so that the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP....
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| x Internet Protocol |
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Robert E. Kahn |
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP.
IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite...
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| x Hydraulic press |
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Joseph Bramah |
A hydraulic press is a hydraulic mechanism for applying a large lifting or compressive force. It is the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever, and is also known as a Bramah press after the inventor, Joseph Bramah, of England. He invented and...
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| x Flush toilet |
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Joseph Bramah |
A flush toilet is a toilet that disposes of human waste by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location. Flushing mechanisms are found more often on western toilets (used in the sitting position), but many squat toilets also are...
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| x Beer engine |
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Joseph Bramah |
A beer engine is a device for pumping beer, originally manually operated and typically used to dispense beer from a cask or container in a pub's basement or cellar. It was invented by the locksmith and hydraulic engineer Joseph Bramah in 1797....
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| x DNA computing |
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DNA computing is a form of computing which uses DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies. DNA computing, or, more generally, molecular computing, is a fast developing interdisciplinary...
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| x Intra-aortic balloon pump | Adrian Kantrowitz |
The Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is a mechanical device that is used to decrease myocardial oxygen demand while at the same time increasing cardiac output. By increasing cardiac output it also increases coronary blood flow and therefore...
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| x Left Ventricular Assist Device | Adrian Kantrowitz | ||||
| x Kalliroscope | Paul Matisse |
A Kalliroscope is an art device/technique based on rheoscopic fluids invented by artist Paul Matisse.
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| x Skinner box |
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B. F. Skinner |
An operant conditioning chamber (also known as the Skinner box) is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he was a graduate...
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| x Detective fiction |
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Edgar Allan Poe | 1841 |
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective (or detectives), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime fiction....
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