1881 — Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1915 — Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
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CBS Pittsburgh: In the not so distant future, contacts may do a lot more than just help you see. What if the lenses could look inside of you to diagnose, monitor and even treat disease? Sound far-fetched? Well, it may not be too far away. The new generation of contact lenses is being called “smart
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Leslie Gordon Christie started out a pudgy child. During her recent pregnancies, she even found herself reaching over 200 pounds. From that experience, she was determined to turn her body around. According to TheRecord, it took 7 months but she succeeded. Viewers of CTV Southwestern Ontario (formerly CKCO) television news knew how big she grew
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WSJ: Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for r’esum’es, the New York venture-capital firm-which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies-asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Applicants also had to submit short videos
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TerrePURE from Terrasentia is an innovative, yet completely natural, process that is AN application of technology to improving the taste of distilled spirits. Unlike simple filtration, re-distillation, or barrel aging, *(the traditional methods of improving taste) their process removes a greater amount of harsh tasting minor alcohols and free radicals and provides additional taste enhancements
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Sometimes it is simply amazing what someone can come up with from the comfort of their own garage, reports Public Radio International. In garages, basements, a Quonset hut and even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, home inventors are creating amazing things in the 21st century. “I think some of the advantages that amateur inventors have over
USA Today: In 2002 Robb McMahan’s wife Lisa, an enthusiastic cook, prepared one of her signature Thanksgiving Day dinners. Like many kitchen floors, the McMahans’ floor was beautiful to look at but uncomfortable to stand on for any length of time. By the time dinner was ready, Lisa’s legs and lower back hurt so much
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1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the “Frisbee”. Morrison claimed that the original idea
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CNBC: How’s this for irony: Early last year the Federal Trade Commission enacted the new so-called Business Opportunity Rule that covered such business pitches as operating vending machines, jewelry display racks or making extra cash by working at home. Notably absent from the definition of business opportunity: multi-level marketers, whose products are sold through a
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rrstar.com: Clayton received his second patent in 2011 for the Temporomandibular Disorder “Ear System†— TMDes. It is a custom-fitted prosthesis placed in a patient’s ear canal to relieve the pain from temporomandibular joint disorder pain, better known as TMJD. The temporomandibular joint is the hinge linking your jaw to your skull and is responsible
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