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Six of his patents had to do with a motor mechanism suspended beneath the rail-car that functioned with compressed air. He founded the Judson Pneumatic Street Railway. Judson is most noted for his invention of the zip fastener. It was originally called a clasp-locker. The first application was as a fastener for shoes and high boots.
The first concept of Lean Six Sigma was created in Chuck Mills, Barbara Wheat, and Mike Carnell's 2001 book, Leaning into Six Sigma: The Path to Integration of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma. [4] It was developed as a guide for managers of manufacturing plants on how to combine lean manufacturing and Six Sigma to improve quality and cycle time ...
The Wagner–Fischer algorithm, in computer science, was discovered and published at least six times. [105]: 43 1967: The affine scaling method for solving linear programming was discovered by Soviet mathematician I.I. Dikin in 1967. It went unnoticed in the West for two decades, until two groups of researchers in the U.S. reinvented it in 1985.
The Accidental Time Machine is a science-fiction novel written by Joe Haldeman and published by Ace Books in 2007. The story follows protagonist Matthew Fuller, a physics research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he accidentally creates a machine that can only jump ahead in time, by exponentially longer periods each time.
Perhaps the oldest known dice, resembling modern ones, were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800 and 2500 BC. [156] [157] Later, terracotta dice were used at the Indus Valley site of Mohenjo-daro (modern-day Pakistan). [158]
It’s a story told in only six words, of course! This activity requires writers to boil a story down to its core, then summarize it in half a dozen words. Most writers home in on a deep topic or ...
Six Part Invention — Note: ^1 This song replaced Marion Aunor's entry, "Do, Do, Do", after Aunor backed out for personal reasons and her talent management decision.
Later writers on rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian, refined this organizational scheme, so that there were eventually six parts: the introduction, or exordium. In the exordium, the speaker gives their main argument, and all relevant information. the statement of the case, or narratio. Quintilian explained that in the narratio "we shall ...