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In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab. History. 19th century ... and 101–150 in the world, in its 2024 list. [167]
Albert Laurence Luce was born on June 26, 1888, in La Grange, Illinois, a village in Cook County, Illinois.His parents were George P. Luce and Jennie Squire Luce. [3] His father managed a lumber yard in La Grange. [1]
The Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann (freshman, young man) [note 1] is a basic biplane trainer aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Bücker Flugzeugbau.
Flight instruments of a Gomhouria 181 Mk6 Egyptian Air Force Gomhouria Mk.6 285 at Gilze-Rijen Air Base, the Netherlands. The Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann was a single-engine low-wing monoplane with a compact cabin that accommodated a pair of adjustable seats in a side-by-side arrangement. [2]
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [507] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [508]
A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks , or 8 dry gallons , and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat .
The Boston University Terriers men’s ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents Boston University.They played their first game in 1918 [2] and have won five national championships, while making 24 appearances in the Frozen Four.
The Bugatti Type 101 is a motor car made by Bugatti in 1951 and 1952 (one was built in 1965). In order to restart production after World War II and the deaths of Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean , the Type 101 was developed from the pre-war Type 57 .