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Wally finds not all inventions are fantastic
Belleville News Democrat The dry land swimming apparatus invented by Prof. Christian L. Ebsen Sr. was not one of those. Prof. Ebsen, as he was referred to frequently in newspapers, was well-known in the city as a physical culture instructor and as the owner of Ebsen's … |
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Montclair State University students compete for $ 10K startup money for inventions
News 12 New Jersey Montclair State University students compete for $ 10K startup money for inventions. Originally published: May 13, 2014 6:31 PM Updated: May 13, 2014 7:18 PM. Student inventors and entrepreneurs at Montclair State University. You need the latest version … |
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Area students display their creativity at Invention Convention
Buffalo News Simon, a kindergartner at Olmsted School 64, was the youngest of 155 area students whose inventions were on display Sunday in the 12th annual Western New York Invention Convention in the Sullivan Campus Center at Medaille College. It's a program of … |
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TV, Google, and bendy straws: Bay Area inventions and discoveries
SFGate (blog) Since the Gold Rush days, when people like Levi Strauss set up shop in San Francisco, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of innovation. With UC Berkeley on one side and Stanford University and Silicon Valley on the other, many of the inventions and … |
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Cubans 'make do' with plenty of odd inventions
MiamiHerald.com In a country where Fidel Castro once proposed breeding mini-cows for pasturing in backyards, it should be no surprise that Cubans have become masters of improvisations and inventions in the face of their myriad scarcities. They punch holes in the … |
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What fictional inventions say about American ingenuity.
Slate Magazine Twentieth-century popular culture is full of frivolous, ill-conceived, ambitious inventions, as well as clueless or venal inventors. But some of the best invention humor has its roots in the 1920s and 1930s. Why was this period prime time for satirical … |