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That little plastic or metal thing at the end of your shoelace has a name. The dress: The biggest question of 2015: Is it white and gold or black and blue? Fatsuit: Yes, this makes you look fat. Gorilla suit: What to wear when you don't want to look human. Koteka: An unusual traditional garment of western New Guinea, also known as the "penis ...
Spurious invention Description Angel Light: According to its inventor, this device could make walls, hands, and stealth shielding transparent. Black box: Popular name for a diagnostic machine made by Albert Abrams. It supposedly could diagnose diseases based on their special vibrations that can be sensed along someone's spine. [1]: 37 Chronovisor
The FBI's name for their undercover operation of investigation, and at times disruption, of influential groups and people in the inland United States during the Cold War. Some of the most famous individuals observed in this operation include: Martin Luther King Jr. , Muhammad Ali , John Lennon , Charles Chaplin and Malcolm X .
From a classic snack to a life-saving medicine, here are some of the serendipitous inventions that have changed the world we live in today. dr3amer / iStock. 1. Potato Chips.
Life's little annoyances are like tiny paper cuts to your sanity – individually manageable, but collectively maddening enough to make you question who designed this reality.
Originally a brand name owned by Lenzing, an austrian based company, for a viscose-type fiber fabricated via the NMMO process. In the meantime Lyocell is a generic name used by various manufacturers. Mimeograph Originally trademarked by Albert Dick. [24] A low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. Quonset
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...
As technology evolves, new names are required to describe the products, services, processes, methods, and devices invented. Often, the first names and phrases brought into use by are by the inventor(s), by journalists covering the development, and marketers trying to sell the services and products. Other terms were developed by the public to ...