Fast forward to present time. Recently, my friend Jack ReVelle sent me a copy of the training materials he used at Hughes Aircraft during the 1980s. On the cover is a Pareto chart in the same style as I was taught. This made me wonder: “Who invented the Pareto chart?” Since unanswe...
He invented the first reliable high-voltage fuse in collaboration with Nicholas John Conrad in 1911, the same year the two founded Schweitzer and Conrad, Inc., today known as S&C Electric Company. His father, Edmund O. Schweitzer, Jr., earned 208 patents. He invented several different line-...
Methodist. One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers; invented the first successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and binding small grain; later, he was an oil producer based in Oklahoma. Died, of heart trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Okla., May 12, 1925 (age...
but was snuffed out by entrenched executives, sclerotic processes or heavy-handed evaluations. Kodak, a legendary company sunk by the digital revolution, actually invented the digital camera in the 1970s. As the inventor
Who Invented the Internet?Despite Al Gore’s claims to the contrary, the Internet was not originally invented by or created by a single person. The Internet as we know it today is a combination of a number of concepts that have ultimately been merged together to provide the service. Tim ...
Robert (Bob) Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an engineer-entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970, co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law. Starting in January 2011, he is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneur...
She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. Age: Dec. at 66 (1943-2009) next up winners & losers #14 #14. Alan Rickman moved up on The Most Trustworthy Celebrities In The World #29 #29. Amy Adams moved down on Famous Women You'd Want to ...