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UT engineering grad earns chance to pitch his invention on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’
On top of his mechanical engineering studies at the University of Toledo, Tom Burden was wrenching on F-16 Fighting Falcons as an Air Force Reserve mechanic with the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton. While on duty, he stumbled into a frustrating issue: When …
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Boca Raton teen inventor earns title of ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’
Herbst seems like any other girl her age, until she starts talking about her high-tech invention. “And as the kinetic movement of the current energy as a result of tidal flux in the Boca Raton Inlet moves my pelting wheel system, it turns the AC generator …
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For life-saving invention, Timothy Chuter earns high royalties
Until the early 1990s, repairing aneurysms in the abdomen was a messy, risky procedure that involved slicing patients open. Dr. Timothy Chuter wanted a better way. To prop up weak blood vessels at risk of rupturing, the young, aspiring surgeon devised a …
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