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A combination between a whiteboard and a cork bulletin board Original early 1960s ad for "Plasti-slate", the first whiteboard/dry erase board invented by Martin Heit. It has been widely reported that Korean War veteran and photographer Martin Heit and Albert Stallion, an employee at Alliance, a leading flat rolled steel sheet supplier should be credited with the invention of the whiteboard in ...
In his 80s, Butts invented another game, titled simply Alfreds Other Game, [12] released in 1985 by Selchow and Righter. [13] Also a tile-based game, it includes 144 letter tiles and four playing boards. [4] Players receive 36 letters from which they try to make as many word combinations as possible. [14] Butts called it "simultaneous solitaire ...
Particleboard with veneer. Particle board, also known as particleboard or chipboard, is an engineered wood product, belonging to the wood-based panels, manufactured from wood chips and a synthetic, mostly formaldehyde-based resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed under a hot press, batch- or continuous- type, and produced. [1]
Labels for Education was a marketing program begun in 1973 by the Campbell Soup Company in the United States, and later also in Canada. The program allowing schools to earn books, musical instruments, computers, and other school supplies in exchange for labels or Universal Product Codes (UPCs) on associated products. [ 1 ]
Chipboard may refer to: Particle board, a type of engineered wood known as chipboard in some countries; See also. White-lined chipboard, a grade of paperboard;
Another early version of the clipboard, known as the "memorandum file", was invented by American inventor George Henry Hohnsbeen in 1921, for which he was granted U.S. patent 1,398,591. [2] Related to the clipboard is the Shannon Arch File, which was developed around 1877.
1900: The company begins producing slate school pencils in its newly opened Easton, Pennsylvania mill. [5]Their carbon black wins the Gold Medal at the Paris Exposition.; 1902: "Binney & Smith Company" is formed September 30, in Easton, Pennsylvania, and serves as general distributor for several carbon black producers, introducing Carbon black to other countries.
Ray Stanton Avery (January 13, 1907 – December 12, 1997) was an American inventor, [1] most known for creating self-adhesive labels (modern stickers).Using a $100 loan from his then-fiancé Dorothy Durfee, and combining used machine parts with a saber saw, he created and patented the world's first self-adhesive (also called pressure sensitive) die-cut labeling machine.