In October, China set up a second national semiconductor fund of 204.2 billion yuan in a bid to nurture the domestic chip industry, a 47-percent increase of the scale of investment compared with the first fund of 138.7 billion yuan, according to media reports. “Chinese industry insiders and ...
In 1829, scientists discovered that it was the compound called salicin in willow plants that was responsible for pain relief. But it was father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, who first discovered the pain relieving properties of the willow plant in the 5th century B.C. Assembly Line Eli Olds...
Well, until the 1900's, there wasn't a THING you could do about any of those ailments. It wasn't until then, when an inventor who couldn't keep up with the demand for his product, brought the formula to Norwich Pharmacal Company in Norwich, New York, when Pepto hit it big. The H...
Eli Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and Henry Ford improved upon it. AstroTurf A patent for synthetic grass-like playing surfaces or Astroturf was issued to Wright and Faria of Monsanto Industries. Atari Computers The history of the entertaining video game console. ...
Ford launched the brand-new Ford Edsel automobile in 1958 and things went badly from the start. Despite spending years of time and money on consumer …
In the year following there was a sudden change in my views of life. I realized that my parents had been making too great sacrifices on my account and resolved to relieve them of the burden. The wave of the American telephone had just reached the European continent and the system was to...
一般现在时的被动语态构成:am/is/are+p.p.(过去分词)1Shakespeare’splaysareseenbymillionsofpeopleeveryyear.2Confucius’worksarestill read by many people today. 3 Mark Twain isn't known as a great thinker. 4 They are respected by Chinese people . 5 Many trees are planted along the two banks...
Lumiere brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe (‘cinema’ is derived from this name). They introduced projectable film and made th
Amar Bose was an electrical engineering professor at MIT, and has donated most of his stock in the company to MIT. This means that MIT technically owns most of Bose. Rubber Tires Twmart Houston Rubber Tires Charles Goodyear developed the process of vulcanizing rubber in 1839, in Woburn. ...
The candy was dubbed life savers because it looked like the floatation device (coincidentally, that was the same year theTitanicsank). It was Noble who came up with the idea of switching the cardboard wrap to a tin foil wrapping, therefore preventing the candy from melting. And the rest ...