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Agenda Announced: Fleet Forward Tour Chicago

Green Fleet Magazine

Fleet Forward: The Tour announces the agenda for its Chicago stop on June 8. The event offers attendees an opportunity to take in educational sessions, experience new technologies behind the wheel, and network with their local fleet community.

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We Need to (Finally) Discuss That Road & Track Article

The Truth About Cars

A few weeks ago, venerable car-enthusiast magazine/Web site Road & Track created a mini-controversy with the deletion of an article from the Internet. Had he let it stand, however begrudgingly, he wouldn't be answering questions about the magazine's ethics. Sometimes it's better to leave things alone.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

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. He found work as a technician for telephone equipment supplier Automatic Electric , in Chicago. He “tried his hand at being an entrepreneur,” he says, and founded a startup in Chicago.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

of Chicago. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. The GE lights were still out of reach for the average consumer, but prices quickly dropped as competitors entered the market. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. Each 8-bulb set cost only $5, with a wholesale price of $3.50.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. In 1977 Tredennick joined Motorola in Chicago as a senior design engineer in the integrated circuits division. He then was named chair of its board of trustees and held that position for three years.

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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

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meters tall and on exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In volume 17 of Make magazine (2009), the steampunk enthusiast known as Jake von Slatt described how to build a Wimshurst machine. Most fit easily on a tabletop, such as this one preserved at the Science Museum London, which measures 56 by 67 by 30.5

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle.

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