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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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Baer worked as a consultant for the Chicago-based toy company Marvin Glass. That’s how he and Morrison wound up at the 1976 Music Operators of America trade show in Chicago, where they saw the demonstration of Touch Me. An abridged version of this article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “What Simon Says.”

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Often a person must walk across a room to retrieve the remote control unit, and frequently it may be misplaced, which, at best, requires extra time and effort to find.” Pedott was born in Chicago in 1932 into the Great Depression. I love this first-person account of how he remembered the invention process.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Uber’s value proposition is that it is cheaper than using a taxi and much cheaper than using a personal car. In the U.S.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. manufacturers exhibit new models at the 1947 Chicago Furniture Mart.

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TWAICE battery analytics platform promises enormously valuable insights at every point in a battery’s lifecycle

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Michael Baumann: I’ve always been a very technology-passionate and technology-driven person, and I wanted to make an impact with technology for the planet and for our society. The headquarters are in Munich, we have one office in Chicago for our US business, and we have another one in Paris for the Southern European market.

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How the First Transistor Worked

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At the end of December, barely two weeks after the initial success of the point-contact transistor, Shockley traveled to Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Physical Society. He is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics.) The team used point-contact transistors produced by RCA under a license from Bell Labs.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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As an adult, he and his wife, Maud, and their young children lived briefly in the drought-stricken Dakota Territory, in Aberdeen, before they settled in Chicago in 1891. Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of the city, it was preparing to host the World's Columbian Exposition. Twenty years after the. Library of Congress.

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