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- Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...States|American]] woman to fly into outer space. Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Teresh...
5: ...cs]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first American wo...
9: Ride is the only person to serve on both panels investigating Shu... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
5: ...nstrument engraving work. Round gravers are commonly used on silver to create bright cuts, as well as...
11: In [[antiquity]], the only engraving that could be carried out is evident i...
28: * [[Laser engraving]] - Glass (26176 bytes)
22: ...iber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
52: ...loped, which led to its becoming a much more commonly used material. The invention of the glass pressi...
85: ...ere rarely optically parallel giving rise to commonly seen distortions.
87: ...hieved by grinding and mechanical polishing, but only at considerable expense.
137: ...this belief is that when panes of glass were commonly made by [[glassblowing|glassblowers]], the techn... - Printing (4400 bytes)
21: A [[document]] can also be printed by a [[laser printer]], [[Inkjet printer|inkjet]], or other [[... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]]
482: * [[1960]]: [[laser]]s: [[Theodore Maiman]], at [[Hughes Aircraft]] - List of sports (7304 bytes)
1: ...may fit in more than one category. Here they are only listed in one.
164: Sports mainly based on sheer power.
191: * [[Inline speed skating]]
195: * [[Roller skating]], Inline skating
259: * [[Laser Tag]] - Tree (23723 bytes)
11: ...rous]] Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form. Later...
16: ...wig]]s and [[leaf|leaves]]. Tree stems consist mainly of support and transport tissues ([[xylem]] and ...
18: ... immediately under the bark. Endogenous trees, mainly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palm...
20: ...th ring]]s. In temperate climates, these are commonly visible due to changes in the rate of growth wit...
22: ...he branches optimizes exposure of the leaves to sunlight. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
97: *[[Gordon Gould]] — [[laser]]
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed - Microscope (8708 bytes)
3: ...or more [[Lens (optics)|lenses]] that produce an enlarged image of an object placed in the focal plane...
8: ... with multiple lenses, is a microscope that uses only one lens for magnification. [[Anton van Leeuwenh...
34: ...to examine a smear, a squash preparation, or a thinly sectioned slice of some material. With a few exc...
54: ...mself halfway the 17th century. The date is certainly not likely, as it has been shown that Zacharias ...
56: ...uwenhoek is, contrary to widespread claims, certainly not the inventor of the microscope. - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
24: * The [[PostScript]] [[laser printer]]
58: ...d succeeded in inventing a board design that not only utilized the 68000, but speeded it up from 5 MHz...
70: ...ned, and had far more programming code in [[Read-only memory|ROM]] than other computers; it had a non-...
74: ...shing]]. Interest in the Mac exploded, and it is only recently that it has started to lose its dominan...
90: ...Macintosh IIsi]], essentially a 20-MHz IIci with only one expansion slot, cost $2500, and was a powerf... - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
10: .... Industrially produced pinholes have access to [[Laser]] etching, but a hobbiest can still produce pinho...
55: * [http://home.online.no/~gjon/pinhole.htm Pinhole Photography, Jon ... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
14: *[[1894]] - The first playoff game for the [[Stanley Cup]] starts.
23: ...les Townes]] receive the first [[patent]] for a [[laser]].
124: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/22 Today in History: March 22] - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
60: ...ate as mid-March; since [[1878]] snow has fallen only three times in October and four in April. Winte...
62: ...magnolia]]s, and [[peach]] trees (both flowering-only and fruiting). The city-wide floral display run...
141: ...ll Jackson]]. It is also the site of impressive [[laser]] shows in the [[summer]].
195: ...three times, and a conference championship once, only to go on to lose to the [[Denver Broncos]] in [[...
197: ...uis, Missouri|St. Louis]] Hawks (1955-68). Their only NBA championship was in [[1958]], when they were... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
11: ...by ''Opocentsky'', 10/76, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3987685.html 3987685].]]
13: ...gelbart's oN-Line System ([[NLS (computer system)|NLS]]), which was both a hardware and software syste...
24: ...Kirsch]] of [[Mouse Systems Corporation]], could only be used on a special metallic surface ([[mouse p...
39: ...use typically draws 25mA to power an [[LED]] or [[laser diode]]. Older optical wireless mice can draw ev...
43: ====Laser mice==== - Cornea (4779 bytes)
25: ...sed today, parts of the cornea are removed with [[laser]]s. - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
152: ...ty of ways over the past 200 years, but most commonly in the treatment of cancer. The [[FDA]] in 2000...
156: ...it is [[direct bandgap]], and so can be used in [[laser diode]]s and [[LED]]s to directly convert [[elect...
201: * [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/33.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Dysprosium (8843 bytes)
163: ...ith [[vanadium]] and other elements, for making [[laser]] materials; its high [[thermal neutron]] absorpt...
201: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/66.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Europium (8579 bytes)
154: ...een used to dope some types of plastics to make [[laser]]s. Due to its ability to absorb neutrons, it is ...
200: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/63.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Gallium (9500 bytes)
140: ...e of the largest liquid ranges for a metal, and (unlike mercury) for having a low [[vapor pressure]] a...
143: ...e than in the crystalline state (like water, but unlike most materials).
145: ...in the conventional [[unit cell]]. Each atom has only one nearest neighbor (at a distance of 244 [[pic...
147: ... [[gallium arsenide]] is a [[semiconductor]] commonly used in [[light-emitting diode]]s).
150: ...allium, with [[optoelectronic]] devices (mostly [[laser diode]]s and light-emitting diodes) as the second... - Hafnium (9162 bytes)
160: ... are amongst the most difficult to separate. The only notable difference between them is their density...
164: ...tudied as a possible power source for gamma ray [[laser]]s.
188: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/72.html Los Alamos National Laborato...
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