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To: TChris

The Japanese do some incredible stuff. I remember in the 60’s, there use to be an international contest. Someone would design something, send it to the next country and they would try and improve it. One year, a coil spring was designed and sent around the world. It finally got to the point that the spring became so small that you could hardly see it. Japan took that spring and drilled a hole through the wire. Nobody could beat that.


8 posted on 05/26/2010 12:16:27 PM PDT by RC2
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To: RC2
The Japanese do some incredible stuff. I remember in the 60’s, there use to be an international contest. Someone would design something, send it to the next country and they would try and improve it.

Back in the '60s some Americans created "the thinnest wire in the world" and sent it to the Swiss as a challenge to do better. The wire came back with no note, and nobody could figure it out - until, under a microscope, they saw the wire had a hole drilled through the core.

18 posted on 05/26/2010 12:54:42 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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OLED were discovered and “invented” in America.


19 posted on 05/26/2010 1:03:31 PM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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