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  2. Earl A. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Earl Avery Thompson in his youth (unknown year) Earl Avery Thompson (July 1, 1891 – April 20, 1967) was an American engineer and inventor who had a goal to make driving the automobile safer by reducing the effort required to shift the manual transmission of the day. Thompson even wanted to automate the process of shifting the transmission.

  3. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    Thompson submachine gun Etherwave Theremin by Robert Moog Watt steam engine [27] Wedgwood blue plate Winchester rifle, 1886 US Zeppelin. Taj Mahal - Mumtaz Mahal; Tesla coil, Tesla turbine – Nikola Tesla; Theremin – Léon Theremin [28] Thompson submachine gun – John T. Thompson; Tobin tax — James Tobin; Tupperware – Earl Silas Tupper

  4. 30 Strange Inventions That People Actually Used Once Upon A ...

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    An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top 200 inventions of 2024. It optically scans a user’s stool and urine, to detect any concerning changes that might ...

  5. 19 Accidental Inventions That We Can't Live Without Now - AOL

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    3. Chocolate-chip cookies. Who: Ruth Wakefield, American chef, When: 1930s How it was created: Ruth Wakefield owned a tourist lodge called the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.One day ...

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    2007: First Kindle introduced by Amazon (company) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who instructed the company's employees to build the world's best e-reader before Amazon's competitors could. Amazon originally used the codename Fiona for the device. This hardware evolved from the original Kindle introduced in 2007 and the Kindle DX (with its larger ...

  7. Life Hackers Dream: 24 Brilliant Designs That Fix The Most ...

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    Buy Now: Amazon #4 This Silicone Pot Strainer Attachment Is The Ultimate Kitchen Multi-Tasker - Strain, Drain, Rinse, Repeat!. Review: "I got this specifically for camping because I use my cast ...

  8. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.

  9. 8 interesting inventions by Native Americans - AOL

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    Caribou and sealskin were the most common materials used. Syringe Though a Scotsman is credited with developing the medical instrument, American Indians were using similar devices before colonization.