For instance, in 1932 Ernest Orlando Lawrence was granted a patent for his invention of "The Cyclotron." According to Suiter/Swantz, a cyclotron is a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles outwards from the center along a spiral path. The particles are held in place in a spira...
One Pepsi fail most of us remember is their launch of Crystal Pepsi, which got a strange revival in 2016, but the company had an even bigger fiasco which few remember when they launched Pepsi AM in 1989. The soda was marketed as something to drink in the morning instead of cof...
1847. He was a great inventor who loved to experiment and discover how things worked. The three inventions considered Edison's greatest are the electric light system, the phonograph, and a motion picture machine that was a forerunner of the movie camera. Today, his inventions have been updated...
Zhang Yingjia in his 70s is one of them.When he joined in the team in 2004,he walked with crutches.Six months later, he became much more flexible than before and was no longer in need of the crutch. Zhang said many old people were even rel ieved from the pain of spondylosis. Nowaday...
“I got the idea when I saw my___, in her 70s, working hard to harvest lotus roots under the hot sun,” Yang said. Sometimes, his grandmother would___hurt her fingers using her harvesting tools. To make things___for his grandmother, Yang thought of creating a machine___could automat...
This 1928 view of Fremont Street depicts a car racing down a dusty dirt road—from the looks of the main drag, it appears this could be any old western frontier town. Few could guess this mining town was about to become the fabulous Las Vegas thanks to two developments on the horizon: ...
Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most prolific inventors in history, produced more than 1,000 inventions in his workshop in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison strove to create devices that could be the most useful to a majority of people. His inventions with t
This 1928 view of Fremont Street depicts a car racing down a dusty dirt road—from the looks of the main drag, it appears this could be any old western frontier town. Few could guess this mining town was about to become the fabulous Las Vegas thanks to two developments on the horizon: ...
This 1928 view of Fremont Street depicts a car racing down a dusty dirt road—from the looks of the main drag, it appears this could be any old western frontier town. Few could guess this mining town was about to become the fabulous Las Vegas thanks to two developments on the horizon: ...