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  • Henry Orenstein, the Holocaust survivor who created 'Transformers' and a TV poker innovation, has died

    12/20/2021 10:22:42 PM PST · by blueplum · 3 replies
    CNN ^ | 20 December 2021 | Laura Studley, CNN
    (CNN)The creator of the human-like robot toys Transformers, Henry Orenstein, died Tuesday at the age of 98 due to complications from Covid-19, his wife Susie Orenstein told CNN Saturday.... A Holocaust survivor who lived through five concentration camps in Poland during World War II, Orenstein came to America in 1947 where he later began his journey in creating toys, his wife said. Orenstein patented multiple toys in the 1960s, including the Suzy Cute Doll and Johnny Lightning toy cars.... ... Henry and Susie Orenstein worked to feed thousands of people in Israel through the Orenstein Project, an organization providing assistance...
  • Engineering a better life (an interview with Rory Cooper)

    10/11/2019 7:44:15 AM PDT · by Jagermonster · 2 replies
    Rory Cooper has always enjoyed tinkering and competition. As a kid growing up in Southern California, he ran track and cross country, and he often worked in his parents’ garage, making improvements to skateboards and bicycles. He brought these skills to his work in the U.S. Army, but then an accident changed his life forever and set him on a path to become an inventor, engineer, and bronze medalist. Rory Cooper: When I was first injured, I was told by the doctors that, you know, “you’d probably have a 10-year lifespan…” And I could’ve just said, well then I’ll just...
  • Gun Inventors of the Past

    08/22/2018 4:41:26 AM PDT · by w1n1 · 9 replies
    Am Shooting Journal ^ | 8/22/2018 | R Rustin
    There were actually many gun inventors/designers of the past. However, only some stood out because of their forward thinking, which propelled them to the top to be remembered in our firearms history. These inventors didn’t just think of creating something that went kaboom, even though that was the fun part. They usually created a firearm to make it better than an existing one. Obviously, when it came to war firearms was used as a better way to fight for territory. Firearms quickly replaced all other weapons of war once the idea became reality. Looking at the progression of bettering the...
  • SCOTUS Comes Down Against Inventors in Oil States Case

    04/24/2018 6:00:08 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 47 replies
    freebeacon ^ | April 24, 2018 | Charles Fain Lehman
    Inventors' rights can be revoked through a controversial administrative process, the Supreme Court ruled by a seven-to-two margin on Tuesday, a move that promises to continue the trend of invalidation of hundreds of existing patents. The case, Oil States v. Greene's Energy, concerns an administrative tribunal called the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). As the Free Beacon has previously reported, the PTAB is responsible for reviewing patents whose validity have been challenged. The PTAB runs on a host of procedures alien to federal court proceedings: lower evidentiary standards, the ability of anyone to challenge a patent right, and a...
  • Daylight Slaying Time

    10/28/2015 7:07:43 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 31 replies
    10/28/2015 | By Laz A. Mataz
  • Inventing a New World

    04/11/2009 12:49:23 PM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 2 replies · 271+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 11, 2009 | John Steele Gordon
    As Gavin Weightman's "The Industrial Revolutionaries" reminds us, inventions on the level of the stirrup's importance seemed to come every other month during the late 18th and 19th centuries -- what Mr. Weightman calls "the most remarkable period of practical inventiveness in world history." ... The steam engine, first made practical by Thomas Newcomen and then made vastly more fuel efficient by James Watt, made work-doing energy cheap for the first time in human history. With the steam engine, factories could be located where labor was most available, and Britain's urban industrial cities, such as Manchester and Birmingham, quickly expanded....
  • Philo Farnsworth: You may not know him, but he invented TV (He did it first, but RCA got the glory)

    08/19/2006 8:14:35 AM PDT · by Borges · 67 replies · 3,507+ views
    AP - Seattle Post ^ | Thursday, August 17, 2006 | FRAZIER MOORE
    Fish don't know they're living in water, nor do they stop to wonder where the water came from. Humans? Not much better, as we share a world engulfed by television. And the deeper our immersion becomes, the less likely it seems we'll poke our heads above the surface and see there must have been life before someone invented TV. That invisible someone was Philo T. Farnsworth, who was fated to live and work, then die, in sad obscurity. Now, on the centennial of his birth on Aug. 19, 1906, his invention plays an increasingly powerful role in our lives --...
  • Mothers of Invention ( Dave Barry)

    06/18/2006 6:24:47 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 12 replies · 949+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | DAVE BARRY
    Mothers of invention BY DAVE BARRY Miami Herald (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Sept. 1, 1996.) People often ask me how America became the world's greatest economic power, as measured in Remote Control Units Per Household (RCUPH). My answer is: ``Inventions.'' Americans have always been great inventors. To cite one historic example: Back in 1879, a young man named Thomas Alva Edison was trying to develop a new light source. One day, he was messing around in his laboratory with some filaments, when suddenly a thought struck him: The letters in ''Thomas Alva Edison'' could be...
  • One of Caterpillar Inc.'s Founding Fathers Inducted Into Inventor Hall of Fame

    02/08/2006 1:37:11 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 12 replies · 676+ views
    PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- One of Caterpillar Inc.'s (NYSE: CAT - News) founding fathers is being recognized for his ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit with induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. At a news conference today in Washington, D.C., the Hall of Fame announced it is posthumously honoring Benjamin Holt for ushering in the modern era of mechanized farming and construction with his "Traction Engine" (Patent #874,008). Holt's invention was inspired by the plight of California farmers who found wheels ineffective in preventing heavy equipment from sinking into the soft, muddy soil. Holt designed a track-laying system...
  • John Logie Baird

    10/30/2005 8:42:23 AM PST · by 1066AD · 5 replies · 417+ views
    The Scotsman ^ | January 21, 2005 | Liam Paterson & Dr. Adrian Hills
    Great Scots - A to Z Thu 13 Jan 2005 John Logie Baird working on his early television apparatus John Logie Baird 1888-1946 Born: Helensburgh A CURSE as much as a blessing, television must surely rank as one of the most all-pervasive and important devices of our modern age, and the man credited with inventing the first practical version of it is John Logie Baird. Baird was born in Helensburgh, a small coastal town in the west of Scotland on 14 August 1888. He was one of four children raised by his mother, Jessie, and his minister father John. As...
  • Mother of invention (U.K. Mom of 5 Wins 9 Awards in U.S. for Parental Internet Guard Invention)

    07/06/2005 5:57:22 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies · 411+ views
    icSouthlondon ^ | Jul 6 2005 | David Callam
    A MOTHER-OF-FIVE from Whyteleafe has returned from this year's International New Products Exhibition, in Pittsburgh in the United States, with nine awards. Paula Ward, 32, of The Avenue, won her gaggle of gongs for a little white box she calls a parental internet guard. A former beauty-salon owner, Paula made a big impression on a panel of international judges - so much so that her electronic innovation was named best of more than 1,000 products from 40 countries. This is her second successful year - in 2004 she won the award for the most promising innovation at the same show....
  • PLEASE! STOP POSTING SAME MESSAGE ON ALL BOARDS!

    08/16/2002 7:39:49 AM PDT · by Merchant Seaman · 754 replies · 30,137+ views
    Annoyed Reader
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  • SpaceShipOne Makes History — Barely

    06/27/2004 9:43:09 PM PDT · by anymouse · 37 replies · 357+ views
    The Space Review ^ | Thursday, June 24, 2004 | Jeff Foust
    If there was a single word to describe how Burt Rutan and his team felt on the day before their historic flight, it would be confident. All the work preparing SpaceShipOne for its flight has been completed days earlier, and Rutan noted that on Saturday, two days before the planned flight, the hangar was dark all day long. Mike Melvill, the pilot selected to fly SpaceShipOne, could barely contain his enthusiasm during the preflight press conference. “I am ready to go, boy, I am ready to go!” he said in a manner not unlike an athlete revving up for a...
  • A scoop of innovation

    05/23/2004 7:42:06 AM PDT · by winodog · 6 replies · 150+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 5/22/04 | Heather Rawlyk
    A scoop of innovation Vegas student wins national contest By Heather Rawlyk LAS VEGAS SUN WEEKEND EDITION May 22 - 23, 2004 When 13-year-old Bobby Roeder's grandfather assigned him the chore of picking rocks out of the backyard garden soil by hand, the sixth grader knew there had to be an easier way to get the job done. So when science teacher Fred Goerisch at Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas gave his class the choice to compete in either a science fair, cyber mission or the 8th Annual Craftsman / NSTA Young Inventors Competition, Roeder didn't have to...
  • Inventor's daughter speaks to space station to mark 1903 radio breakthrough

    01/18/2003 3:27:12 PM PST · by RCW2001 · 12 replies · 234+ views
    Associated Press / SFGate
    MATT PITTA, Associated Press WriterSaturday, January 18, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/01/18/national1715EST0580.DTL (01-18) 14:15 PST EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- A century after Guglielmo Marconi ushered in the era of wireless communications, his daughter marked the centennial Saturday by greeting astronauts from close to the same spot where her father sent a historic radio transmission across the Atlantic. "In this same spirit of his achievement, and also from Cape Cod, I send this wireless greeting to you in space. Cordial greetings, and good wishes," Princess Elettra Marconi told Ken Bowersox, commander of the international space station. "It is amazing how...
  • Clone-producing Raelians install new President (an ideal candidate was available)

    12/30/2002 12:13:33 PM PST · by Registered · 20 replies · 292+ views
    Registered ^ | 12.30.02 | Registered
    He won the popular vote.
  • Nashville New Home For The Gores

    06/28/2002 8:10:27 AM PDT · by TennTuxedo · 21 replies · 302+ views
    The Tennessean ^ | June 28, 2002 | Bonnie de la Cruz and Christian Bottorff
    <p>It's official: Former Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper have a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, records filed with the Metro Register of Deeds show.</p> <p>The home, at 312 Lynwood Blvd., is a white frame home in a colonial style that sits on 2.09 acres filled with magnolia trees. The deed was signed on June 17. The home had been owned by the Bear Family Trust and sold in 1999 for $1.15 million, according to Metro property records.</p>