At first you may not know what a scantron is. However, if you’ve ever taken a big test you’re bound to remember quickly. According to WebProNews, Michael Sokolski is the man you can thank for that testing style. Sokolski was born in Poland on September 25th, 1926. He lost his mother during a German attack […]
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Inventors exist all over the world. Africa.com has compiled a list of inventors found within the country. Yesterday we posted part one to this series. Here are the rest: In Ghana we have a unique inventor named Apostle Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, who successfully manufactured electrical drums, loud speakers, mixing consoles, amplifiers, preamps, and 7-stringed bass
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Inventors exist all over the world. Africa.com has compiled a list of inventors found within the country. This is just the first half of many innovative people featured. Let us first visit Cameroon, where a group of 10-year old kids crafted a remote-controlled “car” from recycled products such as old flip-flops, pieces of wood, rubber,
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USA Today: Yes kids, back in the old days of the 20th century, people actually had to get up off the couch, walk to their TV, and turn a dial to select the channel they wanted to watch. I remember functioning as my father’s personal remote control as a kid, jumping up to change channels
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A young man in India has created a robot that’s already made its way into record books. How he hopes to enlist it in the army, reports Bangalore Mirror. Shirur, who completed his engineering from Basaveshwara Engineering College, Bagalkot, has developed a 61mm x 54mm x 51mm robot that is so tiny that it’s bound
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It’s not everyday an inventor receives a small feature on television, but we can add the inventor of modern skiing to the list, reports DCist. In 1954, Head was awarded a patent for his design that pressed a plywood core inside two aluminum sheets which were then covered by a shell of laminated plastic. The
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The Mainichi: A refrigerator made of highly conductive metal, surrounded with water and insulated can keep a temperature of seven to eight degrees Celsius even outside in the daytime during summer. A dehumidifier he created with a nearly endless lifetime that sells for 23,000 yen is a hit product that sells around 200 units a
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The News Star: Wiley Ezell loved umpiring high school baseball in northeastern Louisiana, but after he passed out from the heat on a particularly stifling day, the former Jackson Parish insurance agent was determined to find some relief. Ezell couldn’t find an existing product that suited his needs, so he invented one, the Cool Neck,
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NY Times: America has always been the land of tinkerers, from Benjamin Franklin and Henry Ford to Steve Jobs and the guy who created the Flowbee. But today’s basement inventors have it easy in ways their predecessors couldn’t have imagined. In the past, someone with a new idea would have had to actually build the
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Pet Product News: The pet product idea casting call, which ends April 23, will be for the show’s fifth season. Inventors can still submit pet product ideas until April 30, when the season’s open casting call ends. Ideas are submitted online. The show’s premise is to help inventors develop their product ideas into finished products
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