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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. Alfred Mosher Butts - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Mosher Butts was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on April 13, 1899, [1] to Allison Butts and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher. His father was a lawyer, and his mother a high school teacher.

  5. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    Barker code – Ronald Hugh Barker; Barlow lens – Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow [9] Bath Oliver – William Oliver; Beaufort scale – Sir Francis Beaufort; Beecham's Pills – Thomas Beecham; Belisha beacon – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha; Benedict's reagent – Stanley Rossiter Benedict [10] Benson raft – Simon Benson [11]

  6. The Da Vinci Code WebQuests - Wikipedia

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    On April 17, 2006, Google launched its own Da Vinci Code-related quest, based around the release of The Da Vinci Code's film version. It was created in coordination with Sony Pictures , and was called the Da Vinci Code Google Quest, [ 1 ] an online series of puzzles with a prize offered to those who answer all 24 puzzles correctly.

  7. 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.

  8. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich - Wikipedia

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    John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) [1] was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten.

  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]