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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [ 5 ] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World .

  3. Evaporating dish - Wikipedia

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    An evaporating dish is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids, [a] and sometimes to their melting point.Evaporating dishes are used to evaporate excess solvents – most commonly water – to produce a concentrated solution or a solid precipitate of the dissolved substance.

  4. Puzzle Quest 2 - Wikipedia

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    Puzzle Quest 2 is a video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the Nintendo DS, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, [7] and Microsoft Windows. It was released on June 22, 2010 by D3 Publisher. A version for the PlayStation Portable was in development, [8] but was cancelled due to sound bugs. [9]

  5. Larry D. Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Diagram from Nichols' patent showing a cube held together with magnets Pocket Cube animation.. Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer.He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School.

  6. Laboratory glassware - Wikipedia

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    Glass evaporating dishes, such as watch glasses, are primarily used as an evaporating surface (though they may be used to cover a beaker.) The Petri dish is a flat dish filled with a nutritious gelatin that allows for microorganisms to quickly grow, its named after its inventor Julius Petri in the 1880s.

  7. Eternity II puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The Eternity II puzzle (E2 or E II) is an edge-matching puzzle launched on 28 July 2007. [1] [2] It was developed by Christopher Monckton and marketed and copyrighted by TOMY UK Ltd as a successor to the original Eternity puzzle. The puzzle was part of a competition in which a $2 million prize was offered for the first complete solution. The ...

  8. David L. Hoyt - Wikipedia

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    Hoyt is the inventor of numerous well-known puzzles, games and brain teasers including USA Today Word Roundup, USA Today Up & Down Words, Jumble Crosswords, TV Jumble and more. He is the current co-author of Jumble , the most syndicated daily word game in the world.

  9. Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Scheffler cooker at JNV school in Leh, India.. Wolfgang Scheffler (born 1956) is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens, bakeries, and in the world's first solar-powered crematorium. [1]