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George Charles Devol Jr. (February 20, 1912 – August 11, 2011) was an American inventor, best known for creating Unimate, the first industrial robot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The National Inventors Hall of Fame says, "Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry."
William "Canada Bill" Jones (c. 1837 – 1877) was an English-born confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States. He has been described by historians, news reporters and others who have written about his life since the late 19th century with such superlatives as "the greatest of confidence men" [1] and "without doubt the greatest three-card-monte sharp ...
Devol Brett (1923–2010), United States Army Air Forces general who piloted American aircraft during crises and wars from 1948 (the Berlin Crisis) through the Vietnam War (1960s) Frank Denny De Vol (1911–1999), sometimes known simply as DeVol, was an American arranger, composer and actor
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Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.
George Ashley Campbell: 1870 Loading coil [438] 2011 George Devol: 1912 Industrial robot [439] 2011 Hannibal Goodwin: 1822 Transparent flexible nitrocellulose [440] 2011 Henry F. Phillips: 1890 Phillips screw [441] 2011 Henry M. Leland: 1843 Interchangeable parts for automobiles [442] 2011 James Ritty: 1836 Cash register [443] 2011 John Hays ...
The 1961 Unimate installed at a General Motors factory differed significantly from George Devol's 1954 patented design. The Unimate was a hydraulically actuated programmable manipulator arm with 5 degrees of freedom. This contrasted with the simpler three-prismatic-link pick-and-place arm described in Devol's "Programmed Article Transfer" (PAT ...
The Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Tyrone Power. [2] The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Recording ( Leslie I. Carey ). [ 3 ]