Harvard medical researchers Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw invented the iron lung to help patients with polio at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. The respirator contraption was widely used in polio outbreaks during the ’40s and ’50s, but the invention of the mechanical respirator eventu...
But, it's early afternoon. If it was after 6 pm I could understand. This happened to me around 3pm. And much to my chagrin, they had closed and locked the doors way earlier. Noon people. Biggby closed at 12 noon and I need to know why....
Hariboinvented gummy bears; the original main ingredient was gum arabic. They were not called gummy bears at that time. Rather, they were referred to as Gold-Bears. Children can trade chesnuts and acorns for Gold Bears in late October at the factory in Bonn, Germany, a tradition that began...
Because the temptation to possibly get away with trying to turn a lie into an artificial truth and the real truth into a lie without anyone finding out, was just to great. Luckly for us, the cell phone study Lie was exposed right away. The problem is, the Denmark vitamin Lie has not ...
I’m going to do this because I think the work that went into this segment is all the more appreciable if you can see the structure, discipline and rigor behind it, and identify the principles on which it was built. So here we go with the “wizard behind the curtain” analysis. ...
Often, gears inside such toys prevent the energy from being released too rapidly, so the stored energy is released at a steady rate. Garage door openers use the principle on a larger scale, using torsion springs to do much of the heavy lifting while a small, low-power electric motor makes...
General Mills first introduced the little cereal circles as Cheerioats but ran into legal trouble with Quaker Oats, which laid claim to use of the word oats in its products, and the name Cheerios emerged in 1945. The brand’s first mascot in print advertising was a girl by the name ofChe...