Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?: The Ubiquitous USB Gadget is the Brainchild of an Unsung Singapore Inventordoi:10.1109/MSPEC.2023.10040548In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached ...
This farce only shows the world more clearly how far the United States is willing to go to protect its interests with the self-invented "rules" and "order." It looks like its policy should be rephrased into "double standards when it should be." A CLOSED-DOOR POLICY As the "city upon ...
Like so many other modern conveniences that we take for granted, the history of the elevator is more complicated than it may seem at first glance. Believe it or not, there's some controversy over who invented this commonplace contraption.
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In 1879, Swiss chap Rudolphe Lindt invented the conch, a machine that rotated and mixed chocolate to a perfectly smooth consistency. By 1907, Milton Hershey’s factory was spitting out 33 million kisses per day. Advertising and World Wars (where soldiers got chocolate as part of their rations...
To understand just how disadvantaged small innovative companies are in markets dominated by behemoths, consider the plight of Retractable Technologies, Inc., of Little Elm, Texas. The company manufactures a type of “safety syringe” invented by its founder, an engineer named Thomas Shaw. The devi...
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Who invented caramel? Some saythe Arabsfirst discovered caramel around 1000 A.D. This was a crunchy type of caramel, created by crystallizing sugar in boiling water. So when did caramel arrive in our fair land? It's believed that American settlers were making hard candies in kettles. ...
William C Speidel (1912–1988), known as Bill Speidel, was a columnist for The Seattle Times and a self-made historian who wrote the books Sons of the Profits and Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle about the people who settled and built Seattle, Washington. Speidel is also credited...
Reif also understood a larger point about the book. The students around him did not know a lot about MIT—they pronounced it “mighty”—but they knew it was special: the kind of institution where the things you read about in textbooks get invented or discovered, and then taught by the ...