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White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there. He also served as a director of the Virginia Tech Foundation. But Electro didn't act on his idea, so he left in 1957 to start his own venture, Holt Instrument Laboratories , in his hometown: Oconto, Wis. He retired from there in 1992.

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Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. At first, the innovation didn’t spread outside of Germany because of World War II. The invention was used by the U.S.

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Thermodynamics on Earth and in space Before we tell you about those ideas and prototypes, you need to understand the role radiation plays in maintaining Earth’s energy balance. The idea of using such a wavelength-selective emitter for radiative cooling dates back to the pioneering work of Claes-Göran Granqvist and collaborators in the 1980s.

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