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  2. NASA spin-off technologies - Wikipedia

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    NASA spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.

  3. Funding of science - Wikipedia

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    Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of natural science, technology, and social science.Different methods can be used to disburse funding, but the term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and only the most promising receive funding.

  4. Timeline of United States inventions (after 1991) - Wikipedia

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    The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [ 7 ] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.

  5. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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    [43] Many individuals and companies have a claim to being the first railroad in the United States, but by the mid-1830s several companies were using steam-powered locomotives to move train cars on rail tracks. Between 1840 and 1860, the total length of railroad trackage increased from 3,326 to 30,600 miles (5,350 to 49,250 km). [44]

  6. Lists of science and technology awards - Wikipedia

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    Cluster network of scientific publications in relation to Nobel prizes.. In July 2020 scientists reported that work honored by Nobel prizes clusters in only a few scientific fields with only 36/71 having received at least one Nobel prize of the 114/849 domains science could be divided into according to their DC2 and DC3 classification systems.

  7. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The company Metz introduces radio device type 409 / 3D. First mass production of printed circuit boards. This follows since the 1930s, several improvements to the manufacturing technology. The company Ampex introduces the "VR 1000" the first video recorder. That same year, CBS uses it for the first magnetic video tape recording (VTR) from.

  8. National Medal of Technology and Innovation - Wikipedia

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    "For his basic discoveries and management in the field of zeolite catalysis…" 1992 Norman Joseph Woodland "For his invention and contribution to the commercialization of bar code technology which improved productivity in every industrial sector and gave rise to the bar code industry." 1993 Amos E. Joel, Jr.

  9. Category:Inventions - Wikipedia

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    Lists of inventions or discoveries (1 C, 87 P) A. Ancient inventions (8 C, 43 P) D. Devices to alter consciousness (1 C, 15 P) H. ... Quirky (company) R. Ranpak; S ...