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John Bardeen’s Terrific Transistorized Music Box

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The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951. The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain. Only Bardeen’s survives.

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GM expands medical projects and charitable deliveries to hospitals

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The first VOCSN V+Pro critical care ventilators produced by General Motors and Ventec Life Systems in Kokomo, Indiana ( earlier post ) are being delivered by UPS to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Protective gowns.

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The Portrait Artist

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It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as a Medal of Honor recipient. Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. That rapport lets her subjects open up, giving readers a glimpse of their personalities, motivations, and attitudes. Education: B.A.,

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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, thru April

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Here’s a sample of some of the events happening this month: DRIVE Electric: Three Rivers Tribes Chapter Kickoff in Fort McDowell, Scottsdale and Chandler, AZ, a three-part event around Phoenix which will include two drives between the three stages of the event. April 14, 12pm-2pm. Each event has a different assortment of activities (e.g.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. The program allows students to earn both an M.D.

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Rivian collaborates with non-profit to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change

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Rivian will provide vehicles to TNC sites in California, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Florida as part of the collaboration. Rivian and TNC solidified their partnership on a trip through the Nachusa Grasslands , just a few hours away from the EV maker’s manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk gives Rivian invaluable advice on manufacturing

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Musk may be the best person to ask this question as Tesla found this lesson out the hard way when ramping the Model 3. There will still be bottlenecks due to parts shortages. .” I’d recommend they get their first plant working. It’s insanely difficult to reach volume production at affordable unit cost.