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Driverless cars may kill off the world’s deadliest invention
We often make lists of the best inventions of all time. But which are the worst? The nuclear bomb would be up there. The AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle also has a particular claim to infamy. The World Bank has estimated that there are about 75m such guns …
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What is the World’s Greatest Invention? Watch the New Miss America Contestants Answer Vintage Questions
If someone asked you what the world’s greatest invention was, what would you say? The computer? The car? Flaming hot Cheetos? During the 1958 Miss America competition, this question was posed to Miss Colorado, who had a pretty good answer that still …
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5 Almost-Life Changing World’s Fair Inventions – U.S. News & World Report
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5 Almost-Life Changing World's Fair Inventions
U.S. News & World Report The natural-gas industry displayed inventions at the The Festival of Gas Pavilion during the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, a design company now known as Teague, showcased "The Kitchen of the Future," where … |
A chemistry professor has invented the world’s first drug-sniffing car
Dr. Guido Verbeck created the prototype by equipping a silver 2015 Ford Fusion Energi hybrid sedan with an advanced mass spectrometer, and tested his invention by setting up a fake meth lab in a mobile home and emitting drug fumes through the vents.
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The world’s first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy
Concern over personal data interception did not start with GCHQ and the NSA – hacking can be traced all the way back to the 19th century T the Telegraph Museum in the Cornish village of Porthcurno hosts the Cooke-Wheatstone device used to catch …
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