1782 – The Montgolfier brothers‘ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. […]
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KVAL: Behind the scenes at the Bailey Hill Market, Thomas Lo Sciuto makes his Zesty Pretz brand of seasoned pretzels. “I’m actually the only one that knows the recipe,” the 19-year-old entrepreneur said, “and I don’t have it written down anywhere. It’s all in my head.” And in people’s mouths. “The other day I had
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Boston Dynamics: “Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings.
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Entrepreneur (blog): The idea of luxury is evolving for consumers, as they’re spending any extra money they have in a variety of different ways than they did before the recession, according to a report this week by consumer-research company IBIS World. For entrepreneurs, these lifestyle shifts can help spark new business ideas. “Instead of returning
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Hindu Business Line: A group of seven teenaged girls, who toiled as labourers in brick klins as child labourers in North 24 Parganas district, have stitched up a new life for themselves by going into the tailoring business. “The idea for a tailoring business came to us after we joined a vocational training programme a
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Somewhere between 7 and 10 percent of the worldwide adult population is left-handed. Is that a big enough market for your products? It might be. photo credit: 22280677@N07 Telegraph: While left-handed people have been catered to by a number of manufacturers, producing everything from left-handed video cameras, wallets, scissors and pencil sharpeners, this is the
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The billboard systems provide a new unique outdoor advertising format to reach audiences in any coastal location or waterfront event. “It’s the only product of its size and kind that works. It’s never missed since you have no visual competition out on the water” says Peter Fleck of Sliders Inc. Mitsubishi, McDonald’s, Disney, and Red
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The seaweed king of Prince Edward Island hasn’t yet made a buck from the seaweed he’s been collecting to sell as fertilizer, but that’s not stopping him: He doesn’t advertise and he doesn’t have a website, but Dorgan is getting lots of calls these days from continental Europe, Ireland, Texas and other parts of the
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KMVT: Have you thought you had a great idea for a new invention, but couldn’t get any farther than that? A local man said his invention could change the game in a big way, when it comes to connecting electrical wires. These days if you want to connect two pieces of wire, you have to
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Divinecaroline.com: It’s safe to say Mary Kay Russell has been busy the last few years. As the mother of four boys, ranging in age from eight to sixteen, she has also created and launched an innovative new line of children’s and family self-expression games into the marketplace. She says at the age of forty-nine, she’s
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