The Accidental Invention of the Slinky

As its jingle once cheered: “A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing! Everyone knows it’s Slinky.” The coiled toy certainly is a marvelous, if simplistic, thing. In 1943, mechanical engineer Richard …
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827 inventors at al-Bassel Fair for Innovation and Invention within Damascus International Fair

Damascus, SANA- 827 inventors will participate in al-Bassel Fair for Innovation and Invention which will kick off on Aug. 31 st within activities of Damascus International Fair. Al-Bassel Fair …
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This 1930s Invention Was Supposed to Make Parallel Parking Easy

These days, some cars can help you parallel park with the touch of a button, but it wasn’t alway so easy. Back in the 1930s you had to parallel park the old fashioned way, and this short clip from a …
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Main Line research institute turns to Jefferson for invention-licensing help

The Lankenau Institute for Medical Research is teaming up with Thomas Jefferson University in a partnership aimed at finding licensing deals for biomedical and health-care inventions developed by …
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Valley man’s invention helped end high-speed pursuit in Mesa; suspects in woman’s kidnapping arrested

PHOENIX – Kidnapping suspects led Phoenix Police on a high-speed chase, but a Valley man’s invention helped save the woman in danger. In 2016, FOX 10 reported on the grappler police bumper, a tool …
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A Simple Invention Could Change How Fast Disease Is Detected

In the rural parts of Uganda, lab technicians spend hours each day on thankless and seemingly unceasing work. The most common tests they run are for malaria. A technician smears a blood sample on a …
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