Schick was founded in 1926 by Jacob Schick as the Magazine Repeating Razor Company. In the same year, Schick introduced its highly successful single-blade safety razor system, which stored twenty blades in a steel injector. Jacob Schick sold the company in 1928 and founded another company bearing his name, in order to market his newly invented electric shavers.
At the age of eight, Les Paul began playing the harmonica. After learning the piano, he switched to the guitar. During this time he invented a neck-worn harmonica holder.
Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)
Paul, was a jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, recorded numerous records, selling millions of copies.
His licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques, and timing set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. (From Wikipedia)
Les (with wife, Mary Ford) in their home recording studio.
The 8-track tape technology was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Inventor George Eash invented a design in 1953, called the Fidelipac cartridge, also called the NAB cartridge. The Lear Jet Stereo 8 cartridge was designed by Richard Kraus while working for the Lear Jet Corporation.
On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (above) released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy-to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.
Berners-Lee was a fellow at CERN, the research organization headquartered in Switzerland. Other research institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University had developed complex systems for internally sharing information, and Berners-Lee sought a means of connecting CERN’s system to others.
He outlined a plan for such a network in 1989 and developed it over the following years. The computer he used, a NeXT desktop (below) became the world’s first internet server.
Berners-Lee wrote and published the first web page, a simplistic outline of the WorldWideWeb project, in 1991.
(FOXNEWS) – Philadelphia inventor Hymen L. Lipman rushed heroically to the aid of mistake-prone schoolchildren, artists and draftsmen everywhere when he secured the patent for the pencil with eraser on this day in history, March 30, 1858.
"Be it known that I, Hymen L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Lead-Pencil and Eraser;" the visionary wrote in his patent application.
"I make a lead-pencil in the usual manner, reserving about one-fourth of the length, in which I make a groove of suitable size … and insert in this groove a piece of prepared India rubber (or other erasive substance) secured to said pencil by being glued at one edge."
The eraser, he noted in his application, "is particularly valuable for removing or erasing lines, figures, etc., and not subject to be soiled or mislaid on the table or desk" — as if the purpose of an eraser was unknown to mid-19th century consumers.
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