This is a story about a horse—a horse whose fate was inextricably tied to the invention of film. It all started in 1872, when eventual Stanford University founder Leland Stanford made a bet with some colleagues.
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It took more than a year, but his viral video helped him find someone to make the idea a reality Little things can escape our notice — a tiny blossom gaining purchase in a concrete path, a miniscule ant resolutely at work, an infant’s waking smile in …
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FORT COLLINS – John Morris is a 28-year-old economics graduate from Colorado State University who has invented a new suspension system for wheelchairs — because he uses one. When Morris was 18 years old, he landed on his head in a freak snowboarding …
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Inventions inspired by trauma and tragedy
CNN (CNN) — Necessity, so the saying goes, is the mother of all invention. But as history often shows adversity is often the catalyst for creativity, inspiring inventors to life-saving feats of ingenuity. Gripping story. Italian Vitale Bramini is credited … |
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The Man Who Inspired Jobs — IN the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero …