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This also made him the eleventh American pilot. [3] A self-taught engineer, with his brother Charles he invented the first automobile speedometer, which made him rich. [2] The Warner Instrument Co. was incorporated in 1903, with Warner as vice president and general manager. [6] In 1912, he sold his speedometer company for $1.2 million. [2]
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
500 kya – 450 kya: Woodworking construction in Zambia by Homo heidelbergensis [14] (The oldest known surviving buildings are made from stone and date back no more than 9,500 years. [15]) 420 – 200 kya: Food storage in the form of uncracked bones saved for their marrow in Qesem cave, Israel. [16] 400 kya: Pigments in Zambia by Homo ...
In 1878, Lester Pelton invented his prototype known as the Pelton's wheel, first demonstrating it to miners in the Sierra Nevada. In 1880, Lester Pelton received a patent for his invention. [228] 1878 Bolometer. A bolometer measures the energy of incident electromagnetic radiation. It was invented in 1878 by American astronomer Samuel Pierpont ...
Robert Cade was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26, 1927. [2] He was a fourth-generation Texan. [3] Cade took an early interest in athletics and ran the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds at Brackenridge High School, [2] a very respectable time for a high school athlete in the early 1940s. [4]
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont. It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher ...
The Busch Brewery in 1967. Anheuser-Busch proposed acquiring land in Florida to construct a brewery with Tampa and Jacksonville as potential sites in April 1957. [3] [4] By June, unconfirmed rumors were reported that a $25–30 million brewery would be built in Tampa, but were initially denied by Anheuser-Busch.
Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 (the "D" prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use), in its Great Valley Laboratory in Paoli, Pennsylvania. [10] [11] The D825 was, according to some scholars, the first true multiprocessor computer. [12] Paoli was also home to the Defense and Space Group Marketing Division. [13]