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Meet the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker

Lonnie Johnson, age 70, was always a maker. As a child, his experiments with rocket fuel nearly burned down his house. While in high school, Johnson was the only black student to enter the Alabama science fair; his entry, a pneumatic robot named Linex, took first prize. Johnson went on to earn engineering degrees from ...

Clever inventor designs sock removal device

“I design Unnecessary Inventions for fun,” says IMGURian @rightcoastguy, who was challenged by fellow users to make this truly silly and wacky invention.

“Meet the SockNoMore.”

I like it.

I would... sheepishly buy it.

I design Unnecessary Inventions for fun, and Imgurian challenged me to make this - meet the SockNoMore.

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The game Operation was born as a test of desert survival skills

We all know the game Operation in which the player must conduct surgery on a curious character named Cavity Sam. As the commercial goes, "It takes a very steady hand." But as sci-tech historian Allison Marsh writes in IEEE Spectrum, Operation evolved from a very different electrified game called Death Valley that was invented ...

The Slinky was invented by accident

Today is National Slinky Day. As Rachael Lallensack writes in Smithsonian, a spring, a spring, this marvelous thing was invented by accident:

In 1943, mechanical engineer Richard James was designing a device that the Navy could use to secure equipment and shipments on ships while they rocked at sea. As the story goes, he dropped ...

How Did The Automobile First Come About?

08.06.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

The automobile is a modern convenience that the majority of people all over the world have come to rely on to get more or less wherever they want to go, so much so that life without them is almost incomprehensible in modern times. Motor vehicles came to prominence steadily over the course of the 20th ...

How Did The Automobile First Come About?

08.06.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

The automobile is a modern convenience that the majority of people all over the world have come to rely on to get more or less wherever they want to go, so much so that life without them is almost incomprehensible in modern times. Motor vehicles came to prominence steadily over the course of the 20th ...