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2005 YouTube. Born from the PayPal Mafia in 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular video sharing site. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. 2006 Blu-ray Disc. A digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, and is capable of storing several hours of video in high-definition. 2007 Nanowire ...
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Kitaw was born in Bonga, Keffa province, Ethiopia on 25 February 1948 [1] [3] to his father Ejigu Haile and mother Askale Belayneh. [citation needed] After completing his primary and secondary education in Bonga, Waka and Jimma, Kitaw attended his higher education at the Polytechnic College of Ethiopia, in Bahir Dar in the department of Mechanical Engineering.
American Genius is an American documentary series focusing on the lives of inventors and pioneers who have been responsible for major developments in their areas of expertise and helped shape the course of history.
Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), the American physicist and inventor who built and launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926. [1] Goddard held 214 patents for his inventions and pioneering innovations in liquid-propelled, guided, and multi-stage rockets.
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first test free-flight from the back of a jetliner. August 15 – Ohio State University Radio Observatory , working on the SETI project, receives a strong narrowband radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by researcher Jerry R. Ehman .
He created the first major museum in the United States, the Peale Museum in Philadelphia, which housed the young nation's only collection of North American natural history specimens. Peale excavated the bones of an ancient mastodon near West Point, New York ; he spent three months assembling the skeleton, and then displayed it in his museum.
NASA spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.