Remove 2019 Remove Baltimore Remove Design Remove Universal
article thumbnail

Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Three years later, while working at the IAF, he was named an honorary professor in the University of Freiburg physics department. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

Solar 144
article thumbnail

High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

Cars That Think

The students began working on the project in 2019. Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. National Industries for the Blind , an employment placement service in Baltimore for the visually impaired.

Baltimore 122
article thumbnail

Help! Megabus Canceled My Trip But Won’t Refund the Booking Fee.

Baua Electric

ed with fees that seem arbitrarily designed to pad companies’ bottom lines. Jeff Sovern, a professor of consumer protection law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, told me in an email that if “the contract is ambiguous, the ambiguity is construed to benefit the party that accepted the contract — here, the consumer.”

article thumbnail

Hyperloop: An Engineering Marvel or An Elite Day Dream

Get Electric Vehicle

Last year, he stated that he had received verbal approval for a New York to Philadelphia to Baltimore to Washington DC Hyperloop, which would reduce the New York to Washington DC travel time to 29 minutes. ” It was judged on the highest speed with successful deceleration in 2019. The Boring Company was awarded a $48.6

Engine 45