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George H. Sweigert (1920–1999) is credited as the first inventor to patent the cordless telephone. [ 1] Born in Akron, Ohio, Sweigert served five years in the US Army as a radio operator in World War II in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Fiji and New Georgia assigned to the 145th Headquarters Company under the 37th Infantry Division (United States).
Philip Kives (12 February 1929 – 27 April 2016) was a Canadian business executive, entrepreneur, and marketing expert from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is best known for founding K-tel, which sold household gadgets including the Miracle Brush, Feather Touch Knife, Veg-O-Matics, as well as many compilation record albums. [ 1]
Victorinox SwissTool. A multi-tool (or multitool) is a hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single unit. The smallest are credit-card or key sized units designed for carrying in a wallet or on a keyring, but others are designed to be carried in a trouser pocket or belt-mounted pouch. [ 1]
The OneTouch Ultra 2 Meter is being used by a diabetic patient. OneTouch Ultra is a blood glucose monitoring device for people with diabetes that is manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. [ 1] It is the foundation product for LifeScan's OneTouch Ultra family of blood glucose monitoring systems . OneTouch Ultra blood glucose meters provide blood ...
Kick (Chagi) All kicks can be executed as jump kicks, spin kicks, jump spin kicks or multi-rotational spin kicks. Also, all can be performed by the front or rear leg in a given stance. Some of the best-known Taekwondo kicks include: Front Kick (앞 차기 ap chagi): This is a very linear kick.
Pesh-kabz, 18th century. Blade: gilt steel; hilt: gilt ivory or bone, Louvre Museum, Paris France. The pesh-kabz or peshkabz (Persian: پیش قبض, Hindi: पेश क़ब्ज़) [1] is a type of Indo-Persian knife designed to penetrate mail armour and other types of armour. [2][3][4] The word is also spelled pesh-qabz or pish-ghabz and ...
A telephone keypad using the ITU E.161 standard. A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s – this ...
The triangular tip is an atomic force cantilever, measuring the knife's breaking point. ( NIST) A nanoknife is a carbon nanotube -based prototype compression cutting tool intended for sectioning of biological cells. [1] Working principle is similar to that of a 'cheese slicer' [citation needed], a nanometer-thin individual carbon nanotube ...