The Maybelline Makeup Company was created by 19-year-old Tom Lyle Williams in 1915. Tom Williams got the idea to enhance his sister’s while he was watching his sister Mabel apply a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker‚ fuller look. He went on to adapt it with his chemistry set. Eventually he came across a mixture containing petrolatum (Vaseline)‚ carbon black‚ cottonseed oil‚ and safflower oil that he hoped he could sell. Unfortunately‚ when Mabel applied it to
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Who Were the First Americans? It has long been the belief that the first Americans migrated from Asia some twelve thousand years ago by crossing the then frozen Bering Strait. In 1932‚ stone artifacts were found alongside mammoth bones in Clovis‚ New Mexico that supported this theory. In recent years‚ however‚ new evidence and discoveries challenge those beliefs. These new discoveries pre-date the Clovis artifacts and are located in different parts of North and South America. Along with those new
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The computer as the most wondrous technological invention of the 20th century Since the beginning of human era we have always tried to obtain machines to make our lives easier. Before the computer was invented people did boring tasks that we now take as they are. No one can deny the fact that computers play a very effective and important role in our lives. Many of us spend a lot of hours in front of computer working or using it just for fun. But still as any thing‚ PCs have their pros and
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The Power of the Plane There has been many successful inventions throughout the 19th and 20th century. Many of these inventions helped influence other advancements in the world. The world today would not be the same without the inventions made in the 19th and 20th century. The atomic bomb‚ steam engine‚ and many more shaped the world today‚ but there is one invention that impacted the world the most. The invention of the airplane lead to future productions‚ impacted the world differently than other
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many other mathematicians of his time achieved that accomplishment. Archimedes was so brilliant that he is still considered by most historians throughout time as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor of Ancient Greece born on 287 B.C. in Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father was an astronomer named Phidias. It is said that Archimedes was known to be a relative of Hiero II. Hiero was the king of Syracuse during the life of Archimedes. Throughout
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Agricultural Invention: compound bow‚ riding saddle‚ and the cotton gin Agriculture has many things to do with inventions. Now you might think that inventions only consist of science and technology. Even though this is true‚ science and technology are involved in agriculture too‚ but the invention themselves is related to agriculture by its purpose or how it is used and by whom. For example‚ the compound bow. It is used for hunting and to bring in a “harvest” of game for food. That is agriculture
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English/world history Mrs. Bisenius February 5‚ 2017 .... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. Morse code was a significant invention during the middle 19th century but why was it important‚ who made it‚ how does it work‚ and is it still used today. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American artist and inventor widely known for his invention of the single wire telegraph and co-inventor of Morse code. Born in Charlestown‚ Massachusetts April 27 1791. Samuel got most of his education from the Yale University
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The invention of printing subjected the existing field of histories – whether allegedly true‚ romantic or novel – to a process of trivializationand commercialization. Romances had circulated in lavishly ornamented manuscripts to be read out to audiences. The printed book allowed a comparatively inexpensive alternative for the special purpose of silent reading. Abridgements of ancient historians‚ popular medieval histories of knights‚ stories of comical heroes‚ religious legends and collections of
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time period that had a tremendous affect on the country we live in such as Guglielmo Marconi‚ Samuel F. B. morse‚ Henry Ford‚ and many many more. There were many inventions which led to the start of the industrial revolution in America. The three most important inventions being the Cotton Gin‚ Railroad‚ and the telephone. The first invention out of the three was the cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney who lived from 1765 to 1825. The cotton Gin was not a very complex but rather
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TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION PANEL: TAKING UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS TO MARKET (A Video Uploaded by princetonacademics on March 25‚ 2010 at www.youtube.com) Submitted by: FRANCISCA B. BICOMONG 91-35899 Submitted to: EDISON D. CRUZ‚ Ph.D Professor TM 206 - Technology Marketing and Commercialization Technology Management Center University of the Philippines Diliman July 15‚ 2012 TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION PANEL: TAKING UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS TO MARKET Introduction The video is a
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