#QuizOfTheDay: Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous #Inventors of all time. He developed many devices in different fields.
Which of these below is NOT an invention of Thomas Alva Edison?
A. Kinetoscope
B. Phonograph
C. Light Bulb
D. Induction motor
https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=625813e00134ba84cbc2fc49
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#SmartPeople #Inventors #CanadianBauxite
If we can't make our own beverage cans...why the hell am I recycling them for 10 cents a can?? Every recycle place should have its own smelter & can making facility attached...
The "D" word may be taboon - but this is why we encourage all voices!
20 things you didn't know were invented by #women
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#inventors #innovation #creativity #curiousity #practicalsolution #revolutionary!
Good Morning #Canada
Today, we share the story of a Canadian inventor who was both the father of the petroleum industry and the savior of whales. Abraham Pineo Gesner (May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene in the 1850s. His new fuel, distilled from coal, quickly replaced whale oil in lamps, reducing the slaughter of the large mammals.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://notyourgrandfathersmining.ca/abraham-gesner-kerosene
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #419: Cotton Candy.
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#cottoncandy #candy #sweets #snacks #food #sugar #inventors #dentists #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #77: Office chairs with wheels were invented by Charles Darwin.
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I’m here to build a network of minds—makers, dreamers, engineers, and visionaries.
We have the tools to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
What we lack is collaboration, shared purpose, and the right system.
That’s why I started working on WIN: the Worldwide Innovation Network.
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#OnThisDay Nelson #Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in #SouthAfrica (1990)
Birth Anniversary of Thomas Edison (1847) - one of the greatest #Inventors of all time.
The Kingdom of #Awadh was annexed by the British East India Company (1856)
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Happy Birthday Jennifer Aniston (1969).
UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’
Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops
Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, was Watt’s doctor.
10 things you didn't know about James Watt.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/01/19-january-james-watt.html
#OTD in 1904.
Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. By 1899 he was able to send radiotelegraph messages between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City (now an area of Pittsburgh), using a receiver of his own design.
Good Morning #Canada
In our current world of digital reading, it's easy to forget the impact of printed words in newspapers. A Canadian was responsible for that impact - Charles Fenerty was a Canadian inventor who invented the wood pulp process for papermaking, which was first adapted into the production of newsprint. Unfortunately, pulp and paper mills were also an environmental disaster for many communities.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/fenerty_charles_12E.html
Good fortune has always followed me around. I'm reminded of it tonight. I'm working on a design that involves a thermistor. Modern thermistors are marvels of accuracy and repeatability. Wonderful things.
So, in the 1960s I lived in the Hillcrest area of West Los Angeles. We also had a beach house in Venice Beach. Our next door neighbor was the Link family, as in the child actor Michael Link. Michael's father was a chemist and retiring. He gave his entire personal laboratory to me, which we transported to the basement of our house in West LA and I added chemistry to my studies. Tremendous fun, very educational, even though I didn't become a chemist. Fortunately, he chose someone responsible because, while I was a crazy youthful experimentalist, I wasn't crazy enough to kill myself. The lab included lots of supplies and plenty of very dangerous reagents. Like I said, fun. This was not a child's toy or chemistry set and I was determined to learn how to use it properly. I mainly focused on chemical assaying. As in you give me a rock and I'll tell you what it's made of.
At the same time, one of my parent's many friends was Dr. Samuel Ruben. He visited Los Angeles from time to time. He and I would hang out and discuss chemistry. When he wasn't around, he was at his lab in New Rochelle, NY and we corresponded by written letters. He was my chemistry mentor. At that age and education level, I was not yet qualified to understand all that he had done. As time went on, I learned more about who had been teaching me.
Which brings us back to the thermistor. Dr. Ruben was an expert in electrochemistry. He held around 200 patents including the invention of the modern thermistor. He also invented the dry electrolytic capacitor, the modern alkaline battery, the mercury battery, the tantalum capacitor... on and on. Ruben co-founded with Mallory the Duracell company.
So I'm getting a kick out of closing the loop and holding a thermistor in my hand tonight.
Take a look at Earl Bakken's workshop.
"The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies.
"The pediatric patient’s surgeon, the now-famed Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, turned to Medtronic founder Earl Bakken for help…"
https://www.twincities.com/2024/10/30/medtronic-first-portable-pacemaker-halloween-1957-blackout/
#FeatureAlert: #Inventors are individuals who introduce new ideas, methods, or products. They are the driving force behind progress and development. #Inventions are the tangible results of their creativity and ingenuity.
Here are some influential innovators and their inventions.
Tsuburaya Eiji Museum in Sukagawa, Japan
A small, family-friendly museum dedicated to the “god of special effects” who brought Godzilla to life.#inventors #film #specialeffects #godzilla #monsters #movies #museums #section-Atlas
Tsuburaya Eiji Museum
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Buckminster Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois
The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.#domes #inventors #buckminsterfuller #architecturaloddities #architecture #eccentrichomes #section-Atlas
Buckminster Fuller Dome Home
Daily Inspiration: "Be the person that sees the opportunities that others cannot see!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's 1982.
And instead of naming a "Person of the Year," Time Magazine names "The Machine of the Year." It's a nod to the potentially revolutionary impact that personal computer technology might have on our future.
And it was right about that time that I committed myself fully to taking part, determined to build a career in this fascinating new world of technology. Within a year, I was subsumed into the online world, discovering via a modem what happens when global connectivity changes forever. I knew something big was happening, and wanted to be a part of it.
I could see something that others would not yet see for a decade or more.
Do you find yourself in that situation? Seeing trends that others can't see, a future to chase that others dare not chase, a new reality that has yet to move beyond the inconceivable for most other people?
Seeing unique opportunities for tomorrow means becoming a futurist for yourself, your purveyor of a different tomorrow, a unique individual who has a lens that distorts today's reality into something different the next day. It means doubling down on your belief in the opportunities that might unfold tomorrow, rather than chasing those that might exist only within today's limited reality.
Study any great invention, and you discover the people who see things differently - and who were dismissed at the time for the errors in their vision.
#Opportunities #Vision #Innovation #Future #Uniqueness #Inspiration #Inventors #Trends #Creativity #Leadership
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-inspiration-being-unique-be-the-person-that-sees-the-opportunities-that-others-cannot-see/
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