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A Crosley IcyBall with cold side ball on left, hot side ball on right. Icyball is a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto (filed 1927, granted 1929), [1] [2] and manufactured by American Powel Crosley Jr., who bought the rights to the device.
Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur.He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team.
Taylor and his glider, 1909. Hallstrom was a member of the Australian Aerial League, led by George Augustine Taylor.Beginning on 5 December 1909, at the sand hills near the entrance to Narrabeen Lakes, he took turns—along with Taylor, Taylor's wife Florence Mary Taylor, and two others—to make short non-powered flights, in a glider that Taylor had built, based upon the box-kite designs of ...
Ermal Cleon "Ernie" Fraze [1] (September 16, 1913 – October 26, 1989) was an American engineer who invented the pull-tab opener used in beverage cans. [1] Early life
1836: Induction coil invented by Nicholas Callan. [21] 1838: Screw-pile lighthouse invented by Alexander Mitchell. [22] 1843: Quaternion discovered by William Rowan Hamilton. [23] 1844: Hypodermic needle invented by Francis Rynd. [24] 1846: Cup anemometer invented by Thomas Romney Robinson. [25] 1848: Kelvin scale invented by William Thomson. [26]
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]
Then, in 1949, he invented a machine that transformed the job of resurfacing an ice rink from a five-man, 90-minute task to a one-man, 15-minute job. [4] The initial machine included a hydraulic cylinder from an A-20 attack plane , a chassis from an oil derrick, a Jeep engine, a wooden bin to catch the shavings, and a series of pulleys.
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