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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. Department of Energy ’s Office of Science , and Gaynor moved his family to Washington, D.C. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. Intel’s first product, the 3101 64-bit SRAM, was released in 1969. His projection came true over the decade that followed. He served as chairman emeritus until 2006.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Meanwhile, manufacturers continued to market new products. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. Their collecting habits were well known in the Washington, D.C., For the next several decades, decorative lights remained the playthings of the wealthy elite. began advertising.

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Stuff We Use: Smoked Side Markers

The Truth About Cars

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have purchased with our own meager income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

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Irradiating the Mail: The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

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Five people died, 18 others became seriously ill, and dozens more tested positive for anthrax exposure in Florida, New Jersey, New York, and the Washington, D.C., It was designed to sterilize medical products. Washington Post article from 22 November 1896, for example, questioned the practice of licking a stamp to activate its glue.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

My wife’s boss gave me a job as a magazine editor for the American Portrait Society in 1981, and I became known in the figurative art world which was a blast while it lasted. I wound up inventing a hit toy for Mattel’s boys toys division ( the Street Sharks ) that saw life as an animated TV show and 50 different licensed products.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines.

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