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A urine collection device or UCD is a device that allows the collection of urine for analysis (as in medical or forensic urinalysis) or for purposes of simple elimination (as in vehicles engaged in long voyages and not equipped with toilets, particularly aircraft and spacecraft).
Augustine later invented a different type of patient-warming device and formed a separate company to sell his competing device. [ 4 ] The Bair Hugger system received FDA clearance in 1987.
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [507] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [508]
The power block was invented by a Croatian fisherman, Mario Puratić, and patented in 1953. In English, Puratić is usually incorrectly spelt Puretic, sometimes Puretich. While he was working as a tuna and sardine fisherman from San Pedro, California, Puratić started thinking about the difficulty of hauling seine nets. The original power block ...
Fathers of microscopy, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke, used the newly invented microscope to observe for the first time small material particles that lay suspended in the water, laying the groundwork for the future understanding of waterborne pathogens.
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. [18] This attracted the attention of local entrepreneur Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis, Minnesota . Numero owned a company that manufactured audio equipment called Ultraphone Sound Systems Inc. and was later renamed Cinema Supplies Inc. [ 18 ] He hired Jones in 1927 as an ...
Keurig (/ ˈ k j ʊər ɪ ɡ /) is a beverage brewing system for home and commercial use.The American company Keurig Dr Pepper manufactures the machines. The main Keurig products are K-Cup pods, which are single-serve coffee containers; other beverage pods; and the proprietary machines that use these pods to make beverages.