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    Inventions In the 1950’s a lot of things were invented and things that may look like they were invented a couple of years back but the truth is that all the items list here were invented in the 1950’s. Starting in 1950 the very first credit card named (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider. Then in 1951 Super glue was invented and in the same year Power Steering AKA (steering) was invented by Francis W. Davis‚ and the first video tape recorder (VTR) invented by Charles Ginsburg. In 1952‚ people came

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    Chinese Inventions

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    Ancient Chinese Inventions and Contributions Strayer University HUM 111- World Culture I 30 May 2013 Introduction China is an exceptional nation that is famous for its ancient invention and contribution to both the past and the current world. Chinese invention and contribution helped greatly in creating jobs‚ engaging in Wars and still contributed to public life. This paper will highlight the top ten ancient Chinese inventions and their importance to people’s daily lives. Eight useful Chinese

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    Introduction: An outdoor drier is where your cloths are dried outside among the sun’s rays and the fresh air. Money and energy can be saved by drying your cloths outdoor. These outdoor dryers are very hand full and they range from light to heavy-duty material. Some of the outdoor dryer have much more ability than the others to handle a lot of wet clothing‚ while others cannot handle a large number of cloths. The outdoor drier which has been designed‚ it is more like an umbrella cloths drier

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    Inca Inventions

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    In 1438 C.E. the inca could travel all over horses or even inventions like the wheel or water bottles or cup they had to make all of that stuff out of stone kinda like how they had to make tools weapons out of sticks rock vines and stone and even obsidian. The most modern day resource was mortar which was used to make houses schools and temples for priests.The people that built the temples would decorate the temples with gold and silver jewelry for the holy gods like the inti. For food the incas

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    Pelton Wheel Performance

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    1 ISSN 2229-5518 Some Aspects of Performance Improvement of Pelton Wheel Turbine with Reengineered Blade and Auxiliary Attachments Suraj Yadav Abstract- Pelton wheel is the only hydraulic turbine of the impulse type in common use‚ is named after an American engineer Laste r A Pelton‚ who contributed much to its development around the year 1880. Therefore this machine is known as Pelton turbine or Pelton wheel. It is an efficient machine particularly suited to high heads‚ many modifications

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    Wheel vs Nirma

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    Hindustan Unilever Ltd: The Wheel Saga MM I Individual Assignment (Weightage: 5%) In April 2009 at the Goafest‚ one of India’s top DJs‚ set the dance floor ablaze by playing a remix of the Nirma jingle. Truth though is he would have been better off playing a remix of the Wheel jingle that was inspired by the 1960s‚ Shammi Kapoor hit song Dekho Dekho Dekho from An Evening in Paris. That commercial‚ set in motion a Wheel that would roll on over the decades to become

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    Meals On Wheels Essay

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    When it was first established in the United Kingdom during the stressful period of the Second World War‚ Meals on Wheels served a very different purpose than it does today. In the modern age‚ it has become the leading movement to alleviate the scourge of hunger amongst seniors around the Western world. By 2050‚ the number of people aged above eighty years old will quadruple‚ mainly due to a combination of lessening birth rates and increased longevity amongst people in the developed world. Therefore

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    Hama Water Wheels

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    Introduction Hama in Syria is famous for these water wheels‚ initially built by the Romans in what must be one of the most impressive engineering feats ever seen in a while. The current turns the wheels which contain small buckets which fill up with water and then spill out over to the aqueduct to its side... basically how to pump water from the river without using a pump. Apparently the wheels are all a-spin in the summer when there’s more water. History Norias were first developed in the Byzantine

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    Pelton Wheel Lab

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    Title: Pelton wheel Objectives: 1. To familiarize with the working principle of Pelton Wheel. 2. To determine the characteristics of Pelton Wheel. 3. To determine the optimum efficiency point. Introduction: The pelton wheel is a very efficient impulse turbine invented by Lester Allan Pelton. The water jet shot the turbine blade and the forces are divided into two symmetrical parts. Unlike other turbine blade Pelton’s paddle geometry was designed so that when the rim runs at ½ the speed

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    Types of Wheel Chairs

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    wheelchair design would be developed. Today‚ there are a number of different wheelchair designs and models available‚ but they are basically classified as either manual or electric. This is an example of a conventional wheelchair. Note the size of the wheels on this transport wheelchair. Manual Wheelchairs Manual wheelchairs are the oldest type of wheelchair available and are either classified as self propelled or attendant propelled. One of the first self propelled wheelchairs was developed by a

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