WD-40 actually stands for Water Displacement, 40th Formula. It was invented in 1953 by a chemist named Norm Larsen, who wanted to prevent corrosion by displacing moisture from surfaces prone to corroding. He made many attempts at his water displacement formula, and finally perfected it on his ...
Pierre-Jules Hertzel, didn’t want it. Pierre had just published “Five Weeks in a Balloon” and thoughtPariswould actually hurt Jules’ burgeoning reputation. So Verne fans had to wait a year untilVoyage au Centre de la Terrecame out. Pierre’s judgment was sound. At...
every weekend. At that point, it had become something that centered me a bit and reminded me where I had come from and what I was doing there in Oregon. Some small part of my mild success during my first year of grad school should be attributed to the Magliozzi brothers. ...
Safety didn’t always come first with Moon Shoes, a set of mini-trampolines that strapped to kids’ feet with Velcro straps. The1980s plastic version, which led to a number of injured ankles, were a vast improvement over the metal ones released in the ’50s. While the danger didn’t de...
8. VELCRO:Known as the fabric of hook-and-loop fasteners, it was first invented in 1945 by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. “Though Velcro has been widely used in shoes, designers have also incorporated it into men’s wear and women’s wear,” says the Fashion Institute of Technology’...
Well, good timing for a start. You can have a great idea which the public simply doesn’t want ... yet. The Italian Giovanni Caselli invented the first fax(传真)machine in the 1860s. Although the machine was excellent, his invention quickly died a commercial(商业的) death. It was not...
Originally invented in 1969 as what Parker Bros. billed as "the world's first indoor ball," Nerf was a round ball until the game-changing Nerf football arrived in 1972. In 1989, however, the company triggered an arms race among children everywhere with the introduction of Blast-a-Ball, wh...
Many people believe there is a limited supply of ideas. You may have heard of the statement made by Charles H. Duell, who was the Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899,“everything that can be invented has been invented.”Though this statement itself turns out to be a myth, acco...
When first invented in Australia in the 1980s, wakeboarding was originally named skurfing and used bindingless hand-shaped boards designed specifically for towing. Nowadays, skurfing has died off in the advent of wakeboarding, which uses bindings. ...
How was break dancing invented? black men trying to steal hubcaps from moving cars. What do you call 50 black people at the bottom of the ocean? Good start. What is the worst 3 years of a black child’s life? First grade. Why do black people keep chickens in their back yards?