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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    While in Pittsburgh, Wynne worked on the Pittsburgh Press newspaper [3] and played the violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. [4] He later moved to New York City and worked on the New York World newspaper. He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5]

  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. Category:Dragon Quest IV characters - Wikipedia

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  5. Hero (Dragon Quest IV) - Wikipedia

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    The Hero is the protagonist of Dragon Quest IV, and can be male or female.They do not have a default name, and can be given a name by the player. They are the second Hero in Dragon Quest to allow players to make them male or female, and the first to give the female Hero a distinct design.

  6. Lewis Howard Latimer - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.

  7. Quest IV - Wikipedia

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    Quest 4 or Quest IV may refer to: Dragon Quest IV, a role-playing video game; King's Quest IV, fourth installment in the King's Quest series of graphic adventure games; Police Quest: Open Season (also known as Police Quest IV), a 1993 police procedural point-and-click adventure video game; Space Quest IV, a 1991 graphic adventure game

  8. Marion Donovan - Wikipedia

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    Marion O'Brien Donovan (October 15, 1917 – November 4, 1998) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. Recognized as one of the era's most prominent female inventors, [1] she secured a total of 20 patents for her creations. In 1946, she created a reusable, impermeable diaper cover.

  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]