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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 ...
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 ...
Prior to the CCNY scandal, the most infamous case of match fixing in college basketball occurred on January 29, 1945, when five Brooklyn College players (Bernard Barnett, Jerome Green, Robert Leder, Larry Pearlstein, and Stanley Simon) were arrested and confessed to accepting $1,000 each from multiple gamblers with promises of an extra $2,000 (equivalent to over $34,900 in 2024) included to ...
Mark Fallon persuades professional gambler "Kansas John" Polly to teach him the trade. As they board a riverboat bound for New Orleans, Kansas John advises him to be wary of F. Montague Caldwell, an unscrupulous riverboat gambler. Mark makes the acquaintance of two fellow passengers, attractive Angelique Dureau and her brother Laurent.
Watch Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing. The hearing is expected to begin Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. ET, according to the Armed Services Committee website, which says it will have a live video.
The Los Angeles Chargers had one of the odder drives in NFL playoff history on Saturday. Down 23-6 against the Houston Texans in the fourth quarter with their odds of a win slipping away, Chargers ...
In 1880, a gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles (161 km) from Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to lynch him. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop ...