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79Great Inventions: Frances Gabe's Self-Cleaning House
I've often wondered just what I could have achieved in my life were it not for all of the hours of house-cleaning I feel compelled to do. Interestingly, I logged in way more cleaning hours pre-kids than...
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69How To Decorate A Christmas Tree On The Cheap
What is it that they say about necessity being the mother of invention? Whatever it is I know what they mean. Take Christmas for example. When money is tight you need to be inventive so that you still have...
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78Land of Invented Languages
I recently read a book published earlier this year: In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent (Spiegel & Grau, New York 2009). In general, there seems to be two main attitudes to "artificial"...
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81John Napier
John Napier, Laird of Merchiston, was born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1550. Logarithms is the greatest of his invention. he began working on his computational method a early as 1594.
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8520 Significant Inventions of the 20th Century
Here's how inventor H. Cecil Booth came up with the idea. He noticed a device on trains that blew dust off chairs and thought it would be better to have a device that sucked the dust instead. To test his idea...
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94Interesting Facts About China
China is a colossal country with a fantastic variety of landscapes, wildlife and people. It is the most populous nation on earth. More than 1.1 billion people live in China and so the Chinese make up roughly...
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84My New Dyson Ball Vacuum Really Sucks
I am a busy woman. I love a clean house. Unfortunately, I have four children, two dogs and a cat. And I work. Game over, right? Not so fast! I am here to tell you that the best present I ever received is my...
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79Seat Belt History
This hub intends to take a very brief look at the history of the seat belt, particularly its stages of development. There is no doubt that seat belts have been one of the most important safety inventions of...
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66The Invention of Lying
What would you do if you lived in a world where everyone could only tell the truth, yet only you could lie. Such a predicament falls upon our protagonist, Mark Bellison (Richard Gervais), as he lives in a...
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72Scientific Attitudes that are Qualities of Scientists
What attitudes do scientists manifest when engaged in an inquiry or investigation? Below are list of scientific attitudes that are qualities of scientists: Beliefs. A scientist believes that everything that...
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