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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Upon further investigation, Maxim realized he had stumbled upon the person who could help him advance his own interests in the nascent field of electric lighting. Alamy In a piece of personal correspondence with Booker T.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. Pedott test-marketed the Great American Turn-On at People’s Drug in Washington, D.C. In 1985, he was hired to sell the Great American Turn-On, the Clapper’s original name.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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His first story, “ The Dangerous Dimension ,” was a light-hearted tale about a professor who could teleport anywhere in the universe simply by thinking “Equation C.” Marshals raided Hubbard’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., To use the E-meter, a user grasps the metal cylinders while a mild electrical current runs through them.

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Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?

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Robert Sparrow, Monash University For consumer electronics, there’s a lot of activity around right-to-repair laws : Europe’s first such regulations took effect in 2021 , requiring manufacturers to make parts available to third-party repair shops for up to 10 years. And, as Spectrum discovered, medical regulators aren’t yet on the bandwagon.

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CES 2023 Preview: A Stick-on-the-Wall TV, A Covid Breath Test, and More

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I’m traveling today to Las Vegas for the in-person CES 2023. In no particular order, here are a few of the gadgets I’m planning to check out in person. The idea is valid, as heat has been shown to stop an itch. After two years of almost pointless virtual shows, I’m excited to get my eyes and hands on real devices.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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