#nationalinventorsday

[freezecrowd]

Happy Inventors' Day! What is your favorite invention? Join us on FreezeCrowd.com to freeze with your favorite invention.💡❤️😀❄️

#NationalInventorsDay #InventorsDay #Inventors

[alliterative-endlessknot]

We’re celebrating #NationalInventorsDay – and Edison’s birthday – by looking back at an old video that covers the sometimes controversial history of patents, and some early work on sound recording by Thomas Edison and others.

#national inventors day #inventors day #inventor #inventors #thomas edison #edison #bug #etymology #history #words #language #linguistics #word nerd #wordnerd #history of english #history of the english language #historical linguistics #lingcomm #lingblr #video #youtube

[jamieroxxartist]

Today, February 11, 2024, is #NationalInventorsDay!

(https://nationaltoday.com/national-inventors-day)

a #Painting I painted a couple of years ago:

‘#HedyLamarr’ #PopArt! #SignalHopping 2014 acrylic and oil blend on canvas, 16"x20" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) This Sold Painting is Not Available

[girlactionfigure]

On #NationalInventorsDay, discover the story of Zenek Moskowicz, whose invention during forced slave labor in Auschwitz almost cost him his life. 

Zenek Moskowicz was born in 1923 to a Jewish family in Wloclawek, Poland. During the Holocaust, he was confined to the Warsaw ghetto, sent to a forced labor camp, and later transported to Auschwitz together with his brother.

Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Moskowicz brothers were assigned to slave labor in the Janinagrube coal mine (part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex). The miners would use a carbide lamp whose flame often blew out in the mine. As the Jewish prisoners were forbidden to carry matches or lighters, they were forced to work in the dark inside of the coal mine, with great risk to their lives.

As time passed, Zenek invented a modified way of lighting the lamp using electric wires from a signal bell without the use of matches, ensuring that their lamps would stay lit. 

Zenek was caught using his improved lamp, accused of sabotage, and sentenced to death. His death sentence was later commuted by the camp commandant. 

More: Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem

#NationalInventorsDay

[pgcclibrary]

𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐆. 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧's name sometimes appears on lists of influential African-American inventors and scientists through the ages. Although he is not accorded the fame bestowed on George Washington Carver or Benjamin Banneker, Johnson quietly earned a small fortune for his Super Soaker water gun, one of the best-selling water toys ever manufactured. The Alabama native and former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientist then plowed much of those earnings into his real passion: developing a revolutionary new power-generation technology using hydrogen fuel cells.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ==⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Source: "Lonnie G. Johnson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 93, Gale, 2011. Gale In Context: Biography.⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ #pgcc #pgcclibrary #blackhistorymonth #lonniegjohnson #supersoaker #nationalinventorsday (at Prince George's Community College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8bmYl5hhpL/?igshid=1qd4egzwrwnor

#pgcc #pgcclibrary #blackhistorymonth #lonniegjohnson #supersoaker #nationalinventorsday

[sciencenewsforstudents]

This is one in a series presenting news on technology and innovation, made possible with generous support from the Lemelson Foundation.

The beautiful but deadly lionfish has devastated coral reefs around Bermuda and other places in the Atlantic Ocean. Native to the Middle East and Pacific Ocean, lionfish have no natural predators here. They have become invasive species, which eat many native species on the reefs. But a new robot could help efforts to control the invaders. It captures these fish. And one day diners may eat the robot’s catch.

“It’s essentially a robotic vacuum that zaps and sucks fish,” says Erika Angle. She is a biochemist and co-founder of the biotechnology company Ixcela in Bedford, Mass. She also works with a number of non-profit and outreach organizations. One of them, Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE), built the lionfish-hunting robot. At an April 2017 demonstration, her team dropped several lionfish into a large, saltwater pool. It was near the ocean in the West Atlantic island nation of Bermuda. Angle sat nearby. Using the joystick from a video-game controller, she steered the underwater robot.

During the demo, Angle saw through the robot’s “eyes.” What that vision system picked up appeared on a laptop screen in front of her. Carefully, the scientist nudged the joystick on the controller. As she did, the robot scooted closer to a large, spiky lionfish.

A crowd of onlookers watched. Would Angle’s robot catch the fish? “Everybody was waiting with bated breath,” the scientist recalls. Finally, she pushed a button. Zap! The robot sent an electric shock through the water. This stunned the fish, which now drifted, motionless. The robot used this opportunity to slowly suck the animal into a holding chamber. The crowd cheered as Angle grinned.

#NationalInventorsDay #inventioneducation #sciblr #science #scied #invasive species #lionfish

[medschooltutors]

Today is another chance to get it right. #MondayMotivation #ThomasEdison #NationalInventorsDay https://www.medschooltutors.com/blog/get-inspired

#MondayMotivation #monday motivation #motivation monday #motivationmonday #thomasedison #thomas edison #botd #nationalinventorsday #national inventors day #meded #medschoolmotivation #medschool #medstudent #med school #med student #medstudents #medstudentblog #medschoolblog #med ed #mededblog #futuredoc #futuredoctor #futuremd

[nypaenergy]

Happy Birthday to Thomas Edison!

Happy birthday to electrical pioneer and inventor Thomas Edison! One of the great American scientific minds of the 19th and 20th centuries, Edison held literally hundreds of patents for a variety of machines, designs, products and ideas.

These patents were developed in the United States and also registered internationally, including the telegraph (and dozens of related technologies), the microphone, the printer, the typewriter, the record player and of course, the electric motor, naming just a few. The world as we know it in the 21st century would simply not exist without the mind and ideas of Edison.

From his Edison Electric Light Company in Menlo Park, NJ, Edison assembled a team of researchers and scientists who routinely registered patents and continuously pumped out a seemingly never-ending stream of new gadgets of never before seen technological wizardry. Through the 1870s and 1880s, Edison collected rival patents until his company grew into the General Electric Company - today’s GE, which includes more than 275,000 employees with subsidiary companies in a variety of industries around the world.

Additionally, in December 1880, the Edison Illuminating Company was formed to construct the first electric generating stations, supplying the first commercially available electricity to downtown Manhattan. The first station was the Pearl Street Station, supplying Manhattan’s finance district - remnants of which can still be found.

Clearly, Edison was an electrical force to be reckoned with. He even wrote a science fiction novel titled Progress! Not only is he one of the most prolific minds in American history, he also is credited with some potent quotes. The next time you need a confidence boost, consider this, one of Edison’s best-remembered lines: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

#newyork #ny #nys #nystate #newyorkstate #edison #thomasedison #thomasalvaedison #happybirthdayedison #inventor #inventors #nationalinventorsday #nationalinventorday #invention #inventions #innovation #electricity

[wwwkaygriffin55com]

So my Lovlies, Thursday February 11, 2021 is #nationalgivingheartsday 💞💕❤ -second Thursday in February!! And it is #nationalmakeafriendday💕 👫🏽👭🏼👬🏾🧑‍🤝‍🧑👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👩‍❤️‍👩!! And it is #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👩‍🔬!! And it is #nationalshutinvisitationday 🛌❤!! And it is #canadasagricultureday 🌽!! And it is #nationalinventorsday 🧑🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬!! And it is #nationalwhiteshirtday 🥼!! And it is #nationalpeppermintpattyday 🍫!! (at Middle Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJArZdhdhl/?igshid=1fc0s8j7ljvtc

#nationalgivingheartsday #nationalmakeafriendday💕 #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience #nationalshutinvisitationday #canadasagricultureday #nationalinventorsday #nationalwhiteshirtday #nationalpeppermintpattyday

[jahguideme]

On #nationalInventorsDay, celebrating not only my invention but to all the dreamers, thinkers, and doers!💡Follow share the innovation. Our version of luxury cleaning. www.hijantech.com #hijan #hijan_tech @hijantech #hijanclean #vacuums #vacuumcleaners #carpetcleaning #tileandgroutcleaning #floorcare #flooring #cleaning #luxuryclean #cleaningservice #cleaningtips #cleanhome #cleaningproducts #cleaningcompany #cleaninghouse #cleaningmode #cleaninghacks #clean #lovetoclean #newtech #startups #entrepreneur #inventor #huslemode #nextbigthing https://www.instagram.com/p/B8cEnTXl929/?igshid=ll9wukl4ens8

#nationalinventorsday #hijan #hijan_tech #hijanclean #vacuums #vacuumcleaners #carpetcleaning #tileandgroutcleaning #floorcare #flooring #cleaning #luxuryclean #cleaningservice #cleaningtips #cleanhome #cleaningproducts #cleaningcompany #cleaninghouse #cleaningmode #cleaninghacks #clean #lovetoclean #newtech #startups #entrepreneur #inventor #huslemode #nextbigthing

[alliterative-endlessknot]

We’re celebrating #NationalInventorsDay – and Edison’s birthday – by looking back at an old video that covers the sometimes controversial history of patents, and some early work on sound recording by Thomas Edison and others.

#national inventors day #inventors day #inventor #thomas edison #edison #etymology #history #words #language #video #youtube #Youtube

[jamieroxxartist]

Ha! Happy #NationalInventorsDay!

[riddlesdotcom]

Riddle of the day. Answer: Riddles.com/1382 #riddleoftheday #riddles #riddlesdaily #riddler #riddle #riddlemethat #1382 #nationalinventorsday https://www.instagram.com/p/B8bqjEVlDb3/?igshid=o4bk5frmoab

#riddleoftheday #riddles #riddlesdaily #riddler #riddle #riddlemethat #1382 #nationalinventorsday

[duggu1991-blog]

"National Inventors Day" . Greatest inventions of 2020 "SUSPENDED ANIMATION" . 👉 SUSPENDED ANIMATION, The ability to set a person’s biological processes on hold, has long been a staple of science fiction . 👉 Emergency Preservation and Pesuscitation (EPR) — This technique could be used on patients with traumatic injuries. . 👉 People, who would have less than a 5% chance of survival otherwise, have suffered cardiac arrest as a result of injuries such as stabbings or gunshots. As a result, they could have lost upward of half their blood and had their heart stop beating. . 👉 EPR Process: Cooling a person to temperatures between 50- and 59-degrees Fahrenheit, replacing their blood with an ice-cold saline solution. This halts almost all of the patient’s brain activity, essentially rendering them dead. . 👉 While the brain can normally survive for only around 5 minutes before irreversible brain damage sets in, cooling the body in this way stops the oxygen-guzzling cellular chemical reactions. The patient can then be moved to an operating theater where a surgical team has a couple of hours to patch up injuries that would otherwise prove fatal. After this, the patient can be warmed up and their heart restarted . #nationalinventorsday #inventions #scientistlife #studententerpreneur #studentlife #collegelife #suspendedanimation #animation #medicalinvention #intrestingfacts #invention_challenge #scienceporn #greatinventions #enterpreneurs #womanenterpreneur #startupStories #startuplife #businessstartup #startuptips #startupindia #digitalduggu #digitalindia #digitalpromotion #bhopalstartups (at bhopal m.p) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8biiJyJH9N/?igshid=bc2dhwvzijmc

#nationalinventorsday #inventions #scientistlife #studententerpreneur #studentlife #collegelife #suspendedanimation #animation #medicalinvention #intrestingfacts #invention_challenge #scienceporn #greatinventions #enterpreneurs #womanenterpreneur #startupstories #startuplife #businessstartup #startuptips #startupindia #digitalduggu #digitalindia #digitalpromotion #bhopalstartups

[sciencenewsforstudents]

This is one in a series presenting news on technology and innovation, made possible with generous support from the Lemelson Foundation.

In the comics, Spiderman hurls his spider silk at will. In real life, making artificial — or synthetic — spider silk is not nearly as easy. But researchers now have found a way to make the flexible yet super-strong strands.

“Now we can do it the way the way that spiders do it,” says Anna Rising.

She works at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. As a medical biochemist, she studies chemical processes important in living things. Rising initially became a veterinarian. Then she got interested in the challenge of making synthetic spider silk. It could be a big help for medicine, for manufacturing and even for producing gear to protect soldiers.

Rising teamed with up Jan Johansson, another medical biochemist at those schools. Spider silk proteins interested him because of his work on Alzheimer’s disease. In that illness, a protein clumps in the brain. Those clumps block normal brain functions and damage nerve cells. And how the proteins come together is similar in both cases.

The idea for the new process developed as the scientists studied what spiders do naturally.

Each molecule of spider silk protein is like a long chain with three basic parts. The longest part has segments that repeat over and over (which are known as “repeats”). If you look at that long part under a high-powered microscope, it would look like towers of stacked Lego blocks connected by springs, explains Randy Lewis. He’s a biochemist at Utah State University in Logan and didn’t work on the project. The Lego-stack areas provide strength, he notes. The springy sections give the material elasticity, or stretch.

A separate part of the spider silk protein is found at the start of that long portion. Another part attaches to the end. Silk proteins can hook onto each other when the silk is spun. That makes long lengths of silk fibers.

Explainer: What is PCR?

Spiders have glands in their abdomens that contain the silk-making proteins in a water-based solution. To make synthetic spider silk, Rising’s team needed building blocks that would form a similar starting protein.

Rising started by collecting fishing spiders from South Africa. (Their scientific name is Euprosthenops australis.) Then she, Johansson and other researchers studied the spider’s silk and its genes. From this, they figured out which part of the spider’s genetic code would make the silk protein. To make lots of copies of those DNA segments, they used a process called the polymerase (Puh-LIM-ur-ace) chain reaction, or PCR.

Rising and Johannsson’s group then put that genetic material into bits their DNA that would enter into bacteria easily. The bacteria added these bits to its DNA and could now make parts of the natural silk. But there was one problem. The small amounts they made were not very soluble in water. That meant the team wouldn’t be able to mix it into a water-based solution like that contained in the spiders’ silk glands.

Meanwhile, Chinese researchers did similar work with an Asian spider, Araneus ventricosus. The two groups joined forces and designed a hybrid protein. They chose the parts from each spider species that would be most soluble in water. The starting part came from the African spider’s silk. The end part was from the Asian spider. For the middle, the researchers used two repeats from the African spider. (That spider’s natural silk protein has about 100 such repeats.)

The team coached bacteria to make this hybrid protein. Then they made a solution of the protein in water, concentrated at up to 50 percent. That’s similar to the concentration in spider glands.

#science #sciblr #scied #spider #silk #NationalInventorsDay #inventioneducation

[rladopts]

#nationalinventorsday 💰 #womeninscience 👩 #stemeducation 🏫 #investinyourself #startups #stevejobsquote #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurship #mondaymotivation #invest 💰 #investyourtime ⌚ #investyourmoney 💰 #livethedream #dontgiveup #robandlauraadopts 👼 #likes 👍 #follows 😊 (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btw6dtABsic/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rpq9ff0ob5ar

#nationalinventorsday #womeninscience #stemeducation #investinyourself #startups #stevejobsquote #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurship #mondaymotivation #invest #investyourtime #investyourmoney #livethedream #dontgiveup #robandlauraadopts #likes #follows