Prior to the 1920s, women used to blow-dry their hair by inserting a flexible pipe in the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner. In 1920, the first hair dryer was invented. Though the machine was not efficient enough and got overheated easily, it was, of course, better than using a vacuum cleaner!
The goal of the game is to form four sets, with each player receiving 13 tiles at the start of the game and drawing and discarding one tile for each of their turns. It became famous overseas, especially in America, during the 1920s. Nickel silver Nickel silver, also known as German ...
During the 1920’s the nation’s manufacturing output rose by more than sixty percent (Brinkley, 634). There were many technology advances during this time period. The automobile became one of the most important industries in the nation (Carr-Wilcox, March 4, 2013). Auto manufactures had to...
Knowing Caroline, a nurse, suffered from a skin disease during her work, Halsted invented the gloves especially for her and gave them to her as a gift after their marriage.Band-Aids When Josephine Knight Dickson from New Jersey kept cutting herself while cooking for her family in the1920s, ...
Dr Shirley Ann Jackson contributed to these two inventions; during, her research period at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s. The Modern Central Heating System In the 1920s, Alice H. Parker’s model used natural gas to heat a home instead of wood and allowed multiple rooms to be heated at...
They descended off the coast of Nonsuch Island, Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. During the dive, they communicated with the surface via telephone. Blodgett, Katherine Katherine J. Blodgett (1898-1979) was an American physicist and inventor who invented a micro-thin barium stearate film that makes...
With the addition of electronic amplification developed byCurt Stillein the 1920s, the telegraphone evolved intowire recorderswhich were popular for voice recording and dictation during the1940sand into the1950s. The reproduction quality of wire recorders was low, however — significantly lower than ...
invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American engineer, in the 1920s. Transmitting an image from one place to another not only made it possible for you to get your Saturday-morning cartoon fix, but also for news and other important information to travel quickly around the ...
create- bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" 2.reinvent- create anew and make over; "He reinvented African music for American listeners" recreate- create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting...
With its location on the south coast of Wales, within splashing distance of the wild waves of the Bristol Channel, Atlantic College feels like a fitting site for a boating design breakthrough that would ultimately make seafaring safer for all. During the 1960s, a team of staff and students ...