Dr. J. Frank Pantridge was a cardiologist at Royal Victoria
Hospital in Belfast. He knew that people who die from heart
attacks often do so within an hour of the attack. So in 1965,
Pantridge developed the first portable defibrillator and had
it installed in an ambulance.
His invention has helped paramedics around the world save
many lives.
It is thought that the first person to aerate water with carbon
dioxide was William Brownrigg in the 1740s. Joseph Priestley
invented carbonated water, independently and by accident,
in 1767 when he discovered a method of infusing water with
carbon dioxide after having suspended a bowl of water above
a beer vat at a brewery in Leeds, Yorkshire. He wrote of the
"peculiar satisfaction" he found in drinking it, and in 1772 he
published a paper entitled Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
William Brownrigg (1712 – 1800)
Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804)
DAVID MELENDY
The first issue of Time magazine was published on March
3, 1923. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United
States.
Yale alumni Henry Luce and Briton Hadden sought to
revolutionize news delivery by creating TIME, a news
publication that offered concise and informative articles.
Little Trees are disposable air fresheners shaped like
a stylized evergreen tree, marketed for use in motor
vehicles, and most commonly seen hanging from rear-
view mirrors. They are made of an absorbent material
produced in a variety of colors and scents.
Little Trees were invented in 1952 in Watertown, New
York, by Julius Sämann, a German-Jewish chemist
and businessman who had fled Nazi Germany.
He had studied Alpine tree aromas in the forests of
Canada and managed to combine excellent perfumes
with a specific material and to manufacture the first
automotive air freshener.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Julius Sämann (1911 – 1999)
On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the
iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera
and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at
the Macworld convention in San Francisco.
Jobs, dressed in his jeans and black mock turtleneck, called
the iPhone a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally
five years ahead of any other mobile phone.”
When it went on sale in the United States six months later, on
June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers lined up
at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to
purchase an iPhone.
In November 2007, by which point more than 1.4 million
iPhones had been sold—Time magazine named the sleek,
4.8-ounce device, originally available in a 4GB, $499 model
and an 8GB, $599 model, its invention of the year.
