query: who was national inventor 's day named after

pos: Inventors' Day nation and the world, the Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 (Public Law 97 – 198), has designated 11 February, the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who held over 1,000 patents, as National Inventors' Day. Inventors' Day Inventors' Day is a day of the year set aside by a country to recognise the contributions of inventors. Not all countries recognise Inventors' Day. Those countries which do recognise an Inventors' Day do so with varying degrees of emphasis and on different days of the year. The Inventors' Day () in Argentina has been celebrated since

pos: Inventors' Day nation and the world, the Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 (Public Law 97 – 198), has designated 11 February, the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who held over 1,000 patents, as National Inventors' Day. Inventors' Day Inventors' Day is a day of the year set aside by a country to recognise the contributions of inventors. Not all countries recognise Inventors' Day. Those countries which do recognise an Inventors' Day do so with varying degrees of emphasis and on different days of the year. The Inventors' Day () in Argentina has been celebrated since

neg: Mark S. Humayun Mark S. Humayun Mark S Humayun is an ophthalmologist, engineer, scientist, inventor and academic – the only ophthalmologist ever to be elected a member of both U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Engineering. He is a university professor with joint appointments at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Humayun was named a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2015 and received the award from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. The award recognizes "those who have made lasting contributions to America’s competitiveness and quality of life and helped

neg: Amédée Bollée Amédée Bollée Amédée-Ernest Bollée (11 January 1844 – 20 January 1917) was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. After 1867 he was known as "Amédée père" to distinguish him from his similarly named son, Amédée-Ernest-Marie Bollée (1867–1926). Bollée was the eldest son of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée, a bellfounder and inventor who moved to Le Mans in 1842. He became seriously ill in the 1860s and was obliged to delegate the day-to-day running of his businesses to his three sons. Amédée-Ernest was given charge of the bell foundry, while Ernest-Jules (1846–1922) supervised the hydraulic ram business and the

neg: Lally column steel columns. The term "lally column" is sometimes incorrectly used in reference to other types of prefabricated steel columns. The Lally column is named after a U. S. inventor, John Lally, who owned a construction company that started production of these columns in the late 19th century. He resided in Waltham, Massachusetts and Boston during the period 1898–1907. He was issued four U. S. Patents on composite columns: #614729, #869869, #901453, and #905888. Pat. #869869 was assigned to the U. S. Column Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Early Lally columns were made with structural steel, "standard" pipes, with wall thicknesses slightly

neg: Ann Moore (inventor) backpack carrier for portable oxygen dispensers and high-tech instruments; the Moore's created a Colorado-based eponymous company to commercialize the invention. Moore grew up on a farm in Ohio and was raised in the Dunkard tradition. She taught for a time after completing her training in pediatric nursing at Columbia University's Babies Hospital in New York City. The Moore's have three daughters, the eldest of whom they named Mandela ("aka" Mande), after Nelson Mandela. Ann Moore (inventor) Ann Moore (born 1934) is an American nurse credited as the inventor of the Weego and Snugli child carriers s. Moore was a pediatric

neg: S. Y. Lee Dynisco Inc. and Setra Systems Inc. with his brother Y. T. Li李耀滋 and was the Chairman of the company. A scholarship fund at Tsinghua is based on Lee's generous donation and named after him ("清華校友李詩穎勵學基金"). He died in July 2018 at the age of 100. S. Y. Lee S. Y. Lee (Shih-Ying Lee; Traditional Chinese: 李詩穎; April 30, 1918 – July 2, 2018) was an American inventor, engineer and physicist who was noted for his research and innovation in hydrodynamics-related technologies. Lee was also an entrepreneur and Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lee was born in 1918

neg: Lipe Art Park in an urban, outdoor, public space and to foster a positive and dynamic vision for the community, celebrating Syracuse's rich history and natural environment. Located in a historically thriving, creative neighborhood (the near west side), Lipe Art Park was named after a local inventor and businessman, Charles E. Lipe, who owned the C. E. Lipe Machine Shop at 208 S. Geddes Street. Established in 1880, this shop became an incubator for inventors, with 360 patents coming from the building at the corner of S. Geddes and West Fayette Streets, in Syracuse. C.E. Lipe was known for his many inventions, including

neg: Linn Boyd of the House in 1851 and held that office until 1855. While in the House, he sufficiently impressed his colleague Charles S. Benton that he named his son, the future inventor and businessman Linn Boyd Benton, after him. Boyd was nominated for Governor of Kentucky in 1848, but declined to run and was replaced by Lazarus W. Powell. In 1852 he moved to Paducah. He was mentioned as a candidate for Vice President of the United States at the 1856 Democratic National Convention, but was never officially nominated; the eventual nominee was fellow Kentuckian John C. Breckinridge. Kentucky voters elected

neg: Rusticated concrete block was streamlined by an inventor named Harmon S. Palmer who created a machine that combined the processes of texturing and forming the concrete blocks. Palmer’s integration of the rusticated concrete block forming processes allowed for the material to gain national notoriety and led to its eventual inclusion in the Sears kit homes. Due to its low cost, concrete was a popular replacement for stone as a structural building element. As a building material, concrete was historically consigned to unseen structural positions such as behind a veneer or in the basement, but evolutions in texturing technology produced concrete blocks that could

neg: Horace Smith (inventor) Hampden County, Massachusetts. R. J. Neal, R. G. Jinks, 1966, Smith and Wesson 1857-1945, New-York, A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., 1966. Horace Smith (inventor) Horace Smith (October 28, 1808 – January 15, 1893) was an American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson, the first of which was financed in part by Oliver Winchester and was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Born in Cheshire, Massachusetts, Smith was employed by the U. S. Armory service from 1824 to 1842, when he moved to Newton, Connecticut.

neg: Inventors' Day Austrian-born inventor and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr whose main invention was the frequency-hopped spread spectrum 1942. The day was proclaimed by Berlin inventor and entrepreneur Gerhard Muthenthaler. According to the website of the organisation it intends to pursue the following goals: "Hungarian Inventors' Day" () is celebrated on 13 June in memoriam of Albert Szent-Györgyi who registered his national patent about the synthesized Vitamin C in 1941. It is celebrated by the Association of Hungarian Inventors (MAFE) since 2009. Since 1995, the Republic of Moldova has celebrated an Inventors' and Rationalizers' Day annually at the end of June. Since 1957,

neg: The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel by George Parsons. In 1895, it was purchased by Henry S. Hale, a Philadelphia inventor and industrialist who had been a regular guest. He renamed it The Balsams, and over time enlarged and augmented the facilities. In 1918, Hale completed the Hampshire House, the towering wing which doubled the resort's capacity to 400 guests. The Ballot Room of The Balsams is where Dixville Notch's presidential primary votes are cast just after midnight on the day of the New Hampshire primaries since the 1960's. These votes cast by Dixville Notch residents are among the first to be cast, counted, and reported

neg: Joseph Dixon (inventor) By 1872 the Dixon company was making 86,000 pencils a day. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company continued to prosper throughout the 20th century by growing through a series of mergers and acquisitions. In 1982, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company merged with the Bryn Mawr Corporation, a Pennsylvania transportation and real estate company with operations dating back to 1795. Together, these companies formed the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, named after Dixon and its oldest brand-name pencil. Joseph Dixon (inventor) Joseph Dixon (1799–1869) was an inventor, entrepreneur and the founder of what became the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, a well-known manufacturer of pencils in

neg: American Inventor American Inventor American Inventor is a reality television series based on a competition to be named America's best inventor. It was conceived by Simon Cowell and the producers of "American Idol" after appeared on Season 5 with his Cosmic Coaster invention. He also appeared on Season 2 of American Inventor and was featured in the Florida auditions. It premiered on ABC on March 16, 2006. It was organized as a competition between the various inventors resulting in one overall winner. Janusz Liberkowski, who invented a new type of child safety seat based on the human womb called the Anecia Safety

neg: 1178 Irmela Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, "Irmela" measures between 17.00 and 20.683 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.0503 and 0.105. 10µm radiometric data collected from Kitt Peak National Observatory in 1975, gave a diameter estimate of 19 kilometers. The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" characterizes "Irmela" as a common S-type asteroid, derives an albedo of 0.0838 and calculates a diameter of 19.05 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.91. This minor planet was named after Irmela Ruska, wife of the inventor of the electron microscope and 1986 Nobelist,

neg: Kerry S. Harris Harris transferred back to the Navy to attend flight school, earning his "wings of gold" to fly P-3 Orions. Harris has been a guest speaker at Harvard Business School. Harris is a member of the national honor society in Psychology (Psi Chi) and is also a pilot maintaining a commercial pilot's license with multi-engine and instrument ratings. In March 2012, Harris was named "Innovator of the Year" by "Black Enterprise" magazine. 7,303,302, 7,530,704, 7,603,725, 7,905,620 Kerry S. Harris Kerry S. Harris (born December 8, 1969) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. Harris is involved with motorcycle helmets under the brand

neg: S. Sambhu Prasad S. Sambhu Prasad Sivalenka Sambhu Prasad (26 January 1911 – 8 June 1972) was a journalist and Indian National Congress politician, who took over the Daily News Paper Andhra Patrika (Daily Telugu language Newspaper), Andhra Sachitra Vara Patrika (Telugu Language Weekly Magazine) and Bharathi (Telugu Language Monthly covering classical Literature) which were published from Chennai City (then Madras) which was the capital of Composite State of Madras (Madras Presidency) from his father-in-law Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao, the founder of Andhra Patrika group of publications in 1903, inventor of "Amrutanjan", a pain balm with natural ingredients, in 1893 and a freedom-fighter. After

neg: Carver Langston to the east, and Benning Road to the south. Directly east of the neighborhood on the very edge of the river is the Langston Golf Course, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the first course in the United States to allow blacks; boxing champion Joe Louis was one of its most frequent visitors. Carver is named after George Washington Carver, a famous black inventor. Langston Terrace is named after John Mercer Langston who served as the first black American from Virginia to serve in the United States Congress. Langston Terrace is famous because it is the city's

neg: Walsall Anarchists circulating information about bomb making. The police also arrested a Swiss inventor called Cavargna, who had invented some small explosive shells for exterminating rabbits in Australia. He was released after two days. A further person named McCormack, who had been recently expelled from the socialist club in Walsall, offered his services to the police, who soon decided he was unreliable. He went to Birmingham where he sold his story to the newspaper and got drunk on the proceeds. Arrested for being drunk and disorderly, he promptly declared in court next day that he had been employed by the police to

neg: Mount Winans, Baltimore inventor of railway steam engines for the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at its beginnings in 1828 and later other American lines when he later set up foundries and shops adjacent to the B. & O.'s "Mount Clare Shops" on West Pratt Street in the later named Mount Clare, Union Square and Poppleton neighborhoods of southwest Baltimore. Winans was also a major industrialist partnering with similar New York City inventor and industrialist Peter Cooper, who developed the first steam-powered locomotive for the Baltimore & Ohio, the famous "Tom Thumb" of 1830. Cooper and Winans later were involved in the southeast

neg: Alexander Cumming Company. As a result of his making instruments for Capt. Phipps's voyage in the polar regions, the island of Cummingøya in Svalbard was named after him. Alexander Cumming Alexhander Cumming (sometimes referred to as Alexander Cummings) FRSE (1733 –8 March 1814) was a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet, which had been pioneered by Sir John Harrington, but without solving the problem of foul smells. The S-trap (or bend) was invented by Cumming in 1775 to retain water permanently within the bowl, thus preventing sewer gases from entering buildings.

neg: Hermann von Siemens Hermann von Siemens Hermann von Siemens (9 August 1885 – 13 October 1986) was a German industrialist of the Siemens family. He was the eldest son of Arnold von Siemens who himself was the eldest son of Werner von Siemens, the famous inventor and founder of "Siemens & Halske", later to become the present-day Siemens AG. Hermann's mother Ellen, née von Helmholtz, was a daughter of Werner's close friend Hermann von Helmholtz, after whom his grandson was named. He was the eldest of five children. After studying physical chemistry and becoming PhD, Hermann von Siemens started his career as an

neg: Benjamin West Clinedinst 1864 Battle of New Market. The mural is today on display in V.M.I.'s Jackson Memorial Hall. Clinedinst's father was photographer and inventor Barnett M. Clinedinst, who named his son after painter Benjamin West. Benjamin West Clinedinst Benjamin West Clinedinst (October 14, 1859 – September 12, 1931) was an American illustrator and painter. His sympathetic collaboration with the various authors gave his work an especial charm. Clinedinst was born on October 14, 1859, in Woodstock, Virginia to Barnett M. Clinedinst and Mary C. South. He attended Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. He studied for a year in Baltimore and for

neg: Paul Moody (inventor) in the British mills. See: Line shaft From 1823-5 Moody was the chief engineer for the Locks and Canals Company. During that time he lived in the house now known as the Moody-Whister-Francis House (currently housing the Whistler House Museum of Art). Moody suddenly died in Lowell in 1831 after a 3-day illness. He was later honored by having streets in Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts named after him, although sections of the one in Lowell were later renamed University Avenue and Textile Avenue, as it continues into neighboring Dracut, Massachusetts. Paul Moody (inventor) Paul Moody (May 23, 1779 – July

neg: Ann Moore (inventor) Ann Moore (inventor) Ann Moore (born 1934) is an American nurse credited as the inventor of the Weego and Snugli child carriers s. Moore was a pediatric nurse by training and, following humanitarian work in Germany and Morocco, she was one of the earliest volunteers for the Peace Corps. She served in Togo during the 1960s and was accompanied by her husband and fellow Peace Corps volunteer, Mike Moore, who had once been her French language teacher. After the birth of the couple's first daughter, Mandela, following their return to the United States, Ann attempted to carry her child in

neg: Joseph Day (inventor) in Norfolk in the east of England. A second financial disaster was the last straw, and Joseph Day disappeared from public view between 1925 and his death in 1946. His obscurity was so complete that a mere five years after his death, the Science Museum made a public appeal for biographical information about him – with no apparent result. Joseph Day (inventor) Joseph Day (1855 in London – 1946) is a little-known English engineer who developed the extremely widely used crankcase-compression two-stroke petrol engine, as used for small engines from lawnmowers to mopeds and small motorcycles. He trained as an

neg: Chetham's Library 'S'-shaped hand-holds (which are still in use) were provided as seats for readers. In 1718 the feoffees offered the Manchester poet and inventor of a system of shorthand, John Byrom, the post of Library Keeper. Byrom, who was an avid collector of books, declined the offer but after his good friend, Robert Thyer, became Librarian in 1732, frequently acted as an agent for the library, purchasing books at London auctions. Byrom's library, which included the manuscript of his poem "Christmas Day" (which became the Christmas carol, "Christians Awake") and some 2,800 printed books, was presented to the library by his

neg: Horace Smith (inventor) Horace Smith (inventor) Horace Smith (October 28, 1808 – January 15, 1893) was an American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson, the first of which was financed in part by Oliver Winchester and was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Born in Cheshire, Massachusetts, Smith was employed by the U. S. Armory service from 1824 to 1842, when he moved to Newton, Connecticut. He was employed by various gun makers up to the 1840s, when he moved to Norwich, Connecticut. He is then listed as

neg: Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) to incorporate new knowledge or fix inconsistencies. An informal group known as the Pouzin Society (PSOC) – named after Louis Pouzin, the inventor of datagrams and connectionless networking - has been taking this role. The RINA research team at Boston University is led by Professors Abraham Matta, John Day and Lou Chitkushev has been awarded a number of grants from the National Science Foundation and EC in order to continue investigating the fundamentals of RINA, develop an open source prototype implementation over UDP/IP for Java and experiment with it on top of the GENI infrastructure. BU is also a member

neg: Hermann von Siemens he married Charlotte von Maltzan, Baroness zu Wartenberg und Penzlin; they had six children and 12 grandchildren. Hermann von Siemens Hermann von Siemens (9 August 1885 – 13 October 1986) was a German industrialist of the Siemens family. He was the eldest son of Arnold von Siemens who himself was the eldest son of Werner von Siemens, the famous inventor and founder of "Siemens & Halske", later to become the present-day Siemens AG. Hermann's mother Ellen, née von Helmholtz, was a daughter of Werner's close friend Hermann von Helmholtz, after whom his grandson was named. He was the eldest of

neg: Microwriter was designed for text-mode note-taking without a conventional desk or keyboard. In 1990 it was awarded the British Design Award. Interface cables were available for the common serial (RS-232) and parallel (printer) ports of the day. These use a "smart" cable connected to a single I²C bus on the AgendA. Chris Rainey, the co-inventor of Microwriter, re-introduced Microwriting for PC and Palm PDAs with a standalone miniature chording keyboard called CyKey. CyKey is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield. Microwriter The Microwriter is a hand-held portable word-processor with a chording keyboard. First demonstrated in 1978, it was

neg: PhoneSat delayed until 2.0 beta was ready to launch. PhoneSat 2.4 included a two-way S band radio, allowing engineers to command the satellite from Earth, and a system to control the orientation of the cubesat in space. The PhoneSat bus was used in several other projects, including the EDSN nano-satellite constellation. Three NASA PhoneSats were launched aboard the Antares 110 A-ONE rocket at 21 April 2013, 21:00 UTC from MARS LP-0A. Two were PhoneSats 1.0, named Graham and Bell; and one was a PhoneSat 2.0, named Alexander. They were named after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. They have

neg: We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film) named Dweeb. They soon meet Vorb's employer Captain Neweyes, the inventor of Brain Grain, who reveals his goal of allowing the children of the present time to see real dinosaurs. He plans to take them to Doctor Julia Bleeb who will guide them to the Museum of Natural History, and warns them of Professor Screweyes, his cruel and insane brother who travels around down at the time causing mischief, after being driven mad by the loss of his eye long ago. Neweyes drops the dinosaurs off in the Hudson River in the present day, but they are unable to meet

neg: Doug Hall (inventor) from other "innovation consultants" based on the following elements: The R&D team of Eureka Ranch have developed an AI system called Merwyn Technology. This system is used to evaluate abstract ideas before additional effort is used to substantiate it. The system was named after Hall's father Merwyn Bradford Hall, who always hated the name Merwyn. Doug Hall (inventor) Doug Hall is Founder & Chairman of Eureka! Ranch International. He is a lecturer, best-selling author, tv and radio host. Doug is a chemical engineer by education. He was Master Marketing Inventor at Procter & Gamble - shipping a record 9 products

neg: H2S (radar) "Height to Slope"; or "Home Sweet Home". The "S" was already being used by the Airborne interception radar team as a deliberately confusing acronym for its operating wavelength in the " " range, which ultimately gave name to the S band. It is also widely reported that it was named after hydrogen sulphide (chemical formula HS, in connection with its rotten smell), because the inventor realised that had he simply pointed the radar downward instead of towards the sky, he would have a new use for radar, ground tracking instead of for identifying air targets and that it was simply

neg: Forrest Bird Bird was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was named "Inventor of the Week" by MIT in February 2001. The American Respiratory Care Foundation names one of its annual awards after Bird. Forrest Bird Forrest Morton Bird (June 9, 1921 – August 2, 2015) was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care. Bird was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Bird became a pilot at an early age due to the encouragement of his father, a World War

neg: George S. Mickelson happened on the same day as the end of the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, which overshadowed it in national news coverage. George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings is named after him, as is the George S. Mickelson Trail in the Black Hills and the George S. Mickelson Center for the Neurosciences in Yankton, South Dakota. The George S. Mickelson Education Center at Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was built in 1990. The George S. Mickelson Great Service Award is given out annually by the South Dakota Office of Tourism. His alma mater, the University

neg: Allen Fieldhouse Allen Fieldhouse Allen Fieldhouse is an indoor arena on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas. It is home of the Kansas Jayhawks men's and women's basketball teams. The arena is named after Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, a former player and head coach for the Jayhawks whose tenure lasted 39 years. Allen Fieldhouse is one of college basketball's most historically significant and prestigious buildings, with 37 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament games having been hosted at the center. The actual playing surface has been named the James Naismith Court, in honor of basketball's inventor, who established KU’s

neg: 1830 Pogson in April 1926. The body's observation arc begins with its observation as at Heidelberg Observatory in March 1929, or 39 years prior to its official discovery observation at Zimmerwald. This minor planet was named after English astronomer Norman Pogson (1829–1891), inventor of the modern astronomical magnitude scale. At the Radcliffe and Madras observatories, he discovered eight asteroids, including 42 Isis and 67 Asia. The lunar crater "Pogson" was also named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1977 (). In the Tholen and SMASS classification, "Pogson" is a common, stony S-type asteroid. In

neg: Charles S.L. Baker was established in 1904, in St. Joseph, with Baker on the board of directors. The company worked up to 136,000 dollars in capital, equal to nearly 4 million dollars in 2018. At 21, Baker married the 19-year old Carrie Carriger on the 12th of December, 1880, in Adams County, Iowa. They had one child, born on the 3rd of January, 1882, named Lulu Belle Baker. Baker died of pneumonia 5 May 1926, in St. Joseph, MO. Charles S.L. Baker Charles S. L. Baker (1859-1926) was an African-American inventor, who patented the friction heater. Charles S. Lewis Baker was born on

neg: Martin Cooper (inventor) really a problem because you couldn't hold that phone up for that long!" By 1983 and after four iterations, the handset was reduced to half its original weight. Cooper is the lead inventor named on "radio telephone system" filed on October 17, 1973, with the U.S. Patent Office and later issued as U.S. Patent 3,906,166. John Francis Mitchell, Motorola's Chief of Portable Communication Products (and Cooper's Manager and Mentor) and the engineers who worked for Cooper and Mitchell are also named on the patent. On April 3, 1973, Cooper and Mitchell demonstrated two working phones to the media and to

neg: James Lowe (inventor) James Lowe (inventor) James Lowe (1796–1866) was the English inventor of a screw propeller. Lowe was apprenticed on 2 November 1813 to Edward Shorter, a master mechanic and Freeman of the City of London, who had in 1800 taken out a patent for propelling vessels, which he had named "the perpetual sculling machine". In 1816 Lowe ran away and joined a whaling ship, the , but after three voyages returned to his master. Later Lowe went into business as mechanist and a smoke-jack maker, and experimented on screw-propellers for ships. On 24 March 1838 he took out a patent, No.

neg: David Berry (inventor) in Okeechobee, Florida. The impact and importance of LS9's technology led to its being named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2008 and its being awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest environmental honor. LS9 was acquired by Renewable Energy Group in 2014. David Berry (inventor) David Berry (born February 10, 1978) is an American innovator, entrepreneur, inventor, CEO, and venture capitalist. Berry has co-founded and helped build over 25 companies in life sciences, technology, and sustainability including category-defining companies such as Seres Therapeutics, Indigo Agriculture,and Axcella Health. He

neg: Pedro Paulet Peru, Paulet's birthday has been officially declared National Aeronautics Day. The Peruvian Air Force, in its Aeronautics Museum in Lima, has made the "Pedro Paulet Hall" into a major exhibit, where Paulet’s works, original sketches, and scale models of his inventions, are on view. Pedro Paulet Pedro Eleodoro Paulet Mostajo (July 2, 1874 – January 30, 1945) was a Peruvian inventor who allegedly in 1895 was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system. German V-2 inventor Wernher von Braun considered Paulet one of the "fathers

neg: Timothy S. McCune the 200th Fastest Growing Company in the US. In 2010, McCune was named as sole inventor in a patent related to IWT’s work for DARPA, US Patent 7,707,035. DARPA subsequently awarded IWT with a contract for the purchase of 2,000 licenses for the digital version of the highly successful VRT application for Android systems. In 2014, McCune was named president of Linear Integrated Systems, Inc., after the death of company founder John H. Hall. He is a member of the board of directors of Linear Integrated Systems and remains on the board of IWT. McCune published in December, 2017 a

neg: Walter S. Hallanan in 1926. After being defeated for re-election to the Senate, Hallanan was elected to serve as West Virginia's Republican National Committeeman in 1928. He remained an RNC member until his death in 1962. Walter S. Hallanan Walter S. Hallanan (died 1962) was a West Virginia political figure who served as temporary chairman of the 1952 Republican National Convention and vice-chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was named West Virginian of the Year for 1952. An oilman, he was installed as temporary convention chairman by his fellow supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft, who went on to lose the nomination

neg: John Henes Sr. in Menominee, was sold to the L. E. Jones company in the early 1940s. In addition to his brewing activity, Henes was vice-president of the First National Bank, the Menominee River Sugar Company, and the Richardson Shoe Company. He was also director of the Lloyd Manufacturing Company, which produced wooden ware. John Henes Park in Menominee is named after Henes, who donated the land for the park in 1907. John Henes Sr. John Henes Sr. (born "Johan Baptist Henes"; January 6, 1852 – January 15, 1923) was an inventor, businessman, and philanthropist in Menominee, Michigan. Henes was born in Gammertingen,

neg: History of basketball Another new game". However, Naismith was the inventor of the new game. Someone proposed to call it "Naismith Game", but he suggested "We have a ball and a basket: why don’t we call it basketball?" The eighteen players were John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman Archibald, who defeated George Weller, Wilbert Carey, Ernest Hildner, Raymond Kaighn, Genzabaro Ishikawa, Benjamin S. French, Franklin Barnes, George Day and Henry Gelan 1–0. The goal was scored by Chase. There were other differences between Naismith’s

neg: Alfred Carlton Gilbert 1989. A biography titled "The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made" was published in 2002. The television movie "The Man Who Saved Christmas" is a dramatization of Christmas during the years 1917 and 1918 when America was involved in World War I. He was portrayed by Jason Alexander. The film takes several historical liberties. It debuted December 15, 2002. Pacific University had named a residential hall after him. Alfred Carlton Gilbert Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 15, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy-maker and businessman. Gilbert is best known as the inventor

neg: Victoria Bachke Victoria Bachke Victoria Bachke (7 July 1896 – 19 November 1963) is most widely known as the founder and first director of Ringve Museum, the national museum of music and musical instruments at Lade, Trondheim, Norway. She is one of the few Russian persons who left tracks in modern Norwegian history. A street at Lade, Trondheim is named after Victoria Bachke. Bachke was born in Kranz, Russia, the daughter of Michael Rostin and Sophie Rostin. Michael was a highly ranked engineer, and an inventor. He was in charge of the home. Bachke had eight brothers and sisters. Valentine, Julia, Elisabeth,

neg: Omar Knedlik Omar Knedlik Omar S. Knedlik (December 21, 1915 – March 14, 1989), was an American inventor and businessman. He was best known as the inventor of the ICEE frozen drink. He was born and raised a poor farm boy in Barnes, Kansas in 1916. Knedlik was a World War II veteran who bought his first ice cream shop after the war. He owned several hotels before moving to Coffeyville, Kansas, where he became the owner of a Dairy Queen in the late-1950s. Knedlik did not have a soda fountain, so he served semi-frozen bottled soft drinks. He found that they

neg: Merle Tuve Merle Tuve had two brothers: George Lewis Tuve, who was a professor of mechanical engineering and Richard Larsen Tuve, who was an inventor and chemist. Their sister, Rosemond Tuve. was an author and professor of Renaissance Literature at Connecticut College. Merle Tuve was married in 1927 to Winifred Gray Whitman. Merle and Winifred had two children, Trygve and Lucy. Both earned Ph.D. degrees and pursued scientific careers. For his service to the nation during World War II, Tuve received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman and was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the

neg: Wardenclyffe Tower (album) Wardenclyffe Tower (album) Wardenclyffe Tower is the seventh studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 1992 through Restless Records (United States) and JMS–Cream Records (Europe), and in 1993 through Polydor Records (Japan); a remastered edition was reissued in 2007 through Eidolon Efformation, containing three bonus tracks (alternative versions of "Tokyo Dream" from 1983's "Road Games" and "The-Unmerry-Go-Round" from 1985's "Metal Fatigue") which were previously only available on the Japanese release. The album's title is a reference to the real life Wardenclyffe Tower, or Tesla Tower, designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1901. "Zarabeth" is named after a character in

neg: Barbara Askins patented her invention in 1978 (U.S. patent No. 4,101,780), and NASA employed it extensively for its research and development work. In 1978, the Association for Advancement of Inventions and Innovations named Askins the National Inventor of the Year. She was the first individual woman to earn this honor. Askins is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Sigma Xi honorary research Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Future Society. Barbara Askins Barbara S. Askins (born 1939) is an American chemist. She is best known for her invention of a method to enhance underexposed

neg: Inventor (patent) a solitary endeavor. Therefore, conception and "intellectual domination" over an invention is important and "reduction to practice, "per se", is irrelevant. One must contribute to the conception to be an inventor." For example, in 1991, consumer group Public Citizen sued the owners of the patent for use of the anti-retroviral compound AZT against HIV Aids, Burroughs-Wellcome. The plaintiffs claimed that several persons at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who had contributed to the patentable subject matter were not named as "inventors." Controversially, the courts ultimately ruled that the original patent was valid, and no error had been made in

neg: Lake Thomas A Edison recommended it for buses, large motor homes, or vehicles towing trailers. A ferry crosses the lake twice a day, linking Vermilion Valley Resort with the John Muir Wilderness trailhead and providing access to and from the John Muir Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. The lake was named after American inventor Thomas Edison to mark the 75th anniversary of his invention of the incandescent light bulb. The dam was named after the valley it flooded, noted for its reddish soil. Lake Thomas A Edison Lake Thomas A Edison (also known as Thomas A. Edison Lake and Edison Lake) is a reservoir

neg: Hubert Cecil Booth powered vacuum cleaners. Before Booth introduced his version of the vacuum cleaner, cleaning machines blew or brushed dirt away, instead of sucking it up. As Booth recalled decades later, in 1901 he attended "a demonstration of an American machine by its inventor" at the Empire Music Hall in London. The inventor is not named, but Booth's description of the machine conforms fairly closely to American inventor John S. Thurman’s blown air design. Booth watched a demonstration of the device, which blew dust off the chairs, and thought that "...if the system could be reversed, and a filter inserted between the

neg: History of Myanmar as 'National Day'. There were further strikes and anti-tax protests in the later 1920s led by the "Wunthanu athin"s. Prominent among the political activists were Buddhist monks ("pongyi"), such as U Ottama and U Seinda in the Arakan who subsequently led an armed rebellion against the British and later the nationalist government after independence, and U Wisara, the first martyr of the movement to die after a protracted hunger strike in prison. (One of the main thoroughfares in Yangon is named after U Wisara.) In December 1930, a local tax protest by Saya San in Tharrawaddy quickly grew into first

neg: Educational policies and initiatives of the European Union period of between 3 months and an academic year in another EU university under the programme, which has become a symbol of Europe in universities. The vocational education and training programme is named after the renaissance inventor and all-rounder Leonardo da Vinci. It currently helps around 75,000 young people each year to do an apprenticeship or internship in another EU country. The adult education programme, named after Pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig, the 19th century Danish theologian, poet, philosopher and thinker, helps those involved in adult education to have access to similar international experience. The sub-programme which supports teaching about

neg: David S. Sheridan David S. Sheridan David S. Sheridan (10 July 1908, Brooklyn – 29 April 2004, Argyle, New York) was the inventor of the "disposable" plastic endotracheal tube. David was the second of six sons of Adolf and Anna Sockolof, who immigrated to the United States from Russia. He changed his name from Sockolof to Sheridan in 1939. He attended school until 8th grade when he went to work with his father and brothers in the hardwood flooring business. David Sheridan was the inventor of the modern "disposable" plastic endotracheal tube now used routinely in surgery. Previous to his invention, red rubber

neg: Fravashi month of the year, and both are named after the "fraward"s. The intersection of the month-name and day-name dedications are the name-day feast of the "fraward"s. This feast day of "farvardin jashan" is especially observed by Zoroastrians who have lost a relative in the preceding year. Additionally, the fourth watch ("gah") of the twenty-four-hour day, from sunset to midnight, is under the protection of the "fraward"s. Fravashi Fravashi (Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬴𐬌 "fravaṣ̌i", ) is the Avestan language term for the Zoroastrian concept of a personal spirit of an individual, whether dead, living, and yet-unborn. The "fravashi" of an individual sends out

neg: Martini (vermouth) FIFA and the common national soccer associations. They were held in Rome and in Mexico. Martini is made from four ingredients: wine, botanicals, sugar and alcohol Martini (vermouth) Martini is a brand of Italian vermouth, named after the Martini & Rossi Distilleria Nazionale di Spirito di Vino, in Turin. Clemente Michel, Carlo Re, Carlo Agnelli and Eligio Baudino started the company in 1847, as a vermouth bottling plant in Pessione. A few years later Alessandro Martini joined the team, becoming the director in 1863 along with Teofilo Sola and Luigi Rossi (who was the inventor of a vermouth). In 1863

neg: Bessemer process of that era described its use in the Chinese iron and steel industry. In the 17th century, accounts by European travelers detailed its possible use by the Japanese. The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was said to be independently discovered in 1851 by the American inventor William Kelly, though there is little to back up this claim. The process using a basic refractory lining is known as the "basic Bessemer process" or Gilchrist–Thomas process after the English discoverers Percy Gilchrist and Sidney

neg: Haren S. Gandhi Haren S. Gandhi Dr. Haren S. Gandhi (May 2, 1941 – January 23, 2010) was an American inventor and engineer, a recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, noted for his research and inventions in the field of automotive exhaust catalysts. Gandhi was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 "for contributions to the research and development of automotive catalysts". Gandhi held 53 U.S. patents. He was also the director of chemical engineering and a Henry Ford Technical Fellow at the Ford Motor Company. President George W. Bush presented Gandhi with the National Medal of

neg: 1st United States Sharpshooters Berdan was also known for being an amateur champion marksman in the United States. Berdan's interest in rifles and shooting led him to the idea of creating a regiment full of men who all had notable shooting skills: the Sharpshooters. On November 30, 1861, Berdan was named colonel of both the first and second Sharpshooter regiments. After serving for three years, Berdan resigned his position as colonel on November 30, 1864, in order to return to his life as a mechanical engineer and inventor. Berdan died on March 31, 1893, and was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. During the

neg: Atlas Shrugged named "Wyatt's Torch"). Each of these men remains absent despite a thorough search by politicians. Having demonstrated the reliability of Rearden Metal in a railroad line named after John Galt, Hank and Dagny become lovers, and later discover, among the ruins of an abandoned factory, an incomplete motor that transforms atmospheric static electricity into kinetic energy, of which they seek the inventor. Eventually, this search reveals the reason for business leaders' disappearances: the inventor of the motor is John Galt, who is leading an organized strike of business leaders against a society that demands that they be sacrificed. Dagny's private

neg: Haren S. Gandhi Technology and Innovation at the White House in 2003. The National Academy of Engineering called Gandhi "one of the world's foremost authorities in the area of automotive emissions control". Haren S. Gandhi Dr. Haren S. Gandhi (May 2, 1941 – January 23, 2010) was an American inventor and engineer, a recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, noted for his research and inventions in the field of automotive exhaust catalysts. Gandhi was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 "for contributions to the research and development of automotive catalysts". Gandhi held 53 U.S. patents. He

neg: Stade Roland Garros France's National Training Centre (CNE); and the Tenniseum, a bilingual, multimedia museum of the history of tennis. The stadium is named after Roland Garros, a pioneer aviator who completed the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea, engineer (inventor of the first forward-firing aircraft machine gun), and World War I hero (as a pilot, he shot down four enemy aircraft, though popularly believed to be five). Garros was killed in aerial combat in 1918. France was an important power in tennis during the first half of the 20th century due to the dominance of Suzanne Lenglen during the 1910s and

neg: Newby O. Brantly Newby O. Brantly Newby Odell Brantly (April 13, 1905 – July 19, 1993) was an American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Brantly Helicopter Corporation. Born in Newport, Texas, Newby Brantly was the son of William Franklin and Ida Mae Brantly. He married Emma Dean Armstrong in 1932. After she died in 1968, he married Virginia Beth Hackler in 1969 and they had a daughter, Lynne Susan. The National Pilots Association named him 1961 "Pilot of the Year". His inventions, amongst others, were a knitting machine for Penn Elastic Company (US-Patent 2067900 of 1935), a pumpjack (US-Patent 4534168 of

neg: Savitribai Phule Pune University 2014 National Medal of Science; Vistasp Karbhari, civil engineer and the eighth president of the University of Texas at Arlington; Suhas Patankar, professor at the University of Minnesota, and pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite volume method; C. Kumar N. Patel, inventor of the carbon dioxide laser, recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Science and vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Vinod Scaria, bioinformatician, who is known for sequencing the first Indian genome. V. S. Huzurbazar served as the first head of the statistics department. S.N. Sadasivan who was

neg: Steven T. Huff is located in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri. In 2005, Huff founded the Pensmore Foundation whose National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) are listed as "Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations: Private Independent Foundations”. Steven T. Huff Steven T. Huff (born 1951) is an American multi-millionaire astrophysicist, inventor and philanthropist, who after his careers in the United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded defense intelligence related companies he eventually sold using the money to build one of the largest homes in the United States named Pensmore, and who is now retired and runs his private independent Pensmore Foundation

neg: Pierre de Fermat 12, 1665 at Castres, in the present-day department of Tarn. The oldest and most prestigious high school in Toulouse is named after him: the . French sculptor Théophile Barrau made a marble statue named "Hommage à Pierre Fermat" as a tribute to Fermat, now at the Capitole de Toulouse. Together with René Descartes, Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century. According to Peter L. Bernstein, in his book "Against the Gods", Fermat "was a mathematician of rare power. He was an independent inventor of analytic geometry, he contributed to the early

neg: SS Patrick S. Mahony February 1945. On 13 September 1945, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in the James River Group. On 10 December 1947, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in Wilmington, North Carolina. On 19 January 1960, she was sold for $70,318, along with nine other Liberty ships, to Bethlehem Steel, to be scrapped. She was removed from the fleet on 20 February 1960. SS Patrick S. Mahony SS "Patrick S. Mahony" was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Patrick S. Mahony, who was

neg: Oliver Ames High School The girls basketball program has won 3 MIAA division 2 state championships (2006, 2010) The Oliver Ames Tiger Marching Band represented the state of Massachusetts in the 2012 Memorial Day parade in Washington D.C. Jim Craig, a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that defeated the Soviet Olympic hockey team in the Miracle on Ice. Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie. Named after the coach, Valentine P. Muscato, who led the football team to six league championships and three undefeated seasons resulting in state championships. The stadium features a state of the art 400-meter track

neg: Alexander Bain (inventor) restored in 1959. The headstone had a fallacious date of death (1876) which was later corrected to 1877. JD Wetherspoons pub in Wick, close to where Alexander Bain served his apprenticeship, is now named 'The Alexander Bain' after the inventor. Also, as a tribute to his inventions, the main BT building in Glasgow is named Alexander Bain House. One of the earliest examples of an electrically impulsed pendulum clock is on display at the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum. In 2016 he was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award "for his pioneering work in the transmission of images". Alexander Bain (inventor) Alexander

neg: American Anti-Imperialist League of the League was former Massachusetts Governor, Congressman, and United States Senator George S. Boutwell, who would remain in the position until his death in 1905. Practical day-to-day executive operations were placed in the hands of Secretary Erving Winslow. In addition to its Boston-based governing center, the Anti-Imperialist League also included a large list of public figures of national reputation who were enlisted as Vice-Presidents of the organization. This post was essentially ceremonial but was important in providing legitimacy to the organization. A total of 18 Vice-Presidents were named at the time of the November formation of the league, including

neg: American Inventor writing in his blog that he once worked on something similar for a client. "American Inventor" was produced by Simon Cowell's Syco TV and FremantleMedia North America, Inc in association with Peter Jones TV. The executive producers were Simon Cowell, Liz Bronstein, Siobhan Greene, Nigel Hall, and Cecile Frot-Coutaz. Co-executive producer was Daniel Soiseth. American Inventor American Inventor is a reality television series based on a competition to be named America's best inventor. It was conceived by Simon Cowell and the producers of "American Idol" after appeared on Season 5 with his Cosmic Coaster invention. He also appeared on Season

neg: Jessica O. Matthews Jessica O. Matthews Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, CEO and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of Uncharted Power, which made Soccket, a soccer ball that can be used as a power generator. Matthews attended Harvard College and graduated from Harvard Business School. In 2011, "Fortune Magazine" named her "Fortune"’s "10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs" and in 2015, named her as "Fortune"’s "Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs." In 2012, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations named her "Scientist of the Year." Matthews is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Nigeria. The President of Nigeria named Matthews

neg: Jehan Daniel Jehan Daniel Jehan Keeth Cion Daniel (born 13 April 1999) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who plays for Sri Lanka U19's side. He also represented the national U19 side in the 2016 U19 World Cup. In December 2017, he was named as the vice captain of Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In March 2018, he was named in Kandy's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. The following month, he was also named in Kandy's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. He made his List A debut for Kandy in the

neg: Phil Karn the IETF, especially in security, but is also a strong contributor to the Internet architecture. His name is on at least 6 RFCs. He is the inventor of Karn's Algorithm, a method for calculating the round trip time for IP packet retransmission. He is well known in the amateur radio community for his work on the KA9Q Network Operating System (NOS), named after his amateur callsign, early 9600 bit/s FSK radio modems, and more recently, the introduction of forward error correction (FEC) into the Amateur Satellite Service, with FEC applied to the 400 bit/s PSK telemetry from the now-defunct AO-40

neg: Żyrardów Żyrardów Żyrardów is a town and former industrial hub in central Poland with approximately 41,400 inhabitants (2006). It is the capital of Żyrardów County situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998) west of Warsaw. Żyrardów, initially a textile settlement, was named after French engineer and inventor Philippe de Girard, who worked in the area. Founded by the Łubieński brothers as a textile factory in 1833. One of directors of the factory was French inventor Philippe de Girard (from Lourmarin). The town developed during the 19th century into a significant textile mill town in

neg: Martin Frisch Martin Frisch Martin Frisch (November 22, 1899 – June 16, 1959) was an Hungarian/American mechanical engineer, director of Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the "development of modern practices in fuel pulverizing and steam generation.", and as recipient of the 1958 ASME Medal Frisch was born 1899 in Csebze, Hungary, now Cebza in Timiș County in Romania. He came with his family to the United States in 1909, where they settled in St. Louis, and naturalized in 1917. Frisch was named after his father, also engineer and inventor, who filed

neg: Thoothukudi October 1986, a new district, carved out of the erstwhile Tirunelveli district was born in Tamil Nadu and named after V. O. Chidambaranar, a prominent national leader hailing from Ottapidaram who led the Swadeshi Movement in the south. Since 1997, as is the case in other districts of Tamil Nadu, this district has been named after its headquarters town, Thoothukudi. Thoothukudi became the citadel of freedom struggles in the early of the 20th century. It was in Thoothukudi that the illustrious patriot, V. O. Chidambaram established the first swadesi Stream Navigation Company, sailing the first steamer S. S. Gaelia to

neg: Pupin Hall Denmark. Pupin Hall is named after Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (also known as Michael I. Pupin), a Serbian-American scientist and graduate of Columbia. Returning to the university's engineering school as a faculty member, he played a key role in establishing the department of electrical engineering. Pupin was also a brilliant inventor, developing methods for rapid x-ray photography and the "Pupin coil," a device for increasing the range of long-distance telephones. After his death in 1935, the university trustees named the newly constructed physics building the "Pupin Physics Laboratories" in his honor. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

neg: Clarence S. Campbell Bowl Clarence S. Campbell Bowl The Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, or simply the Campbell Bowl, is a National Hockey League trophy awarded to the Western Conference playoff champions. It is named after Clarence S. Campbell, who served as President of the NHL from to . The trophy itself is constructed of sterling silver, crafted in 1878. The Vegas Golden Knights are the current holders of the trophy after winning the 2018 Western Conference Final. The Clarence S. Campbell Bowl was donated by the NHL's clubs in recognition of the contributions and services of its namesake, the League President at the start

neg: Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum is named after him. In 2015, Google placed a doodle created by Google artist Sophie Diao on its main web page commemorating his birthday on March 5. The name of the Momofuku restaurants in the United States alludes to Momofuku Ando. Momofuku Ando , ORS, (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was a Taiwanese-Japanese inventor and businessman born in Imperial Japanese Taiwan who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.. He is known as the inventor of instant noodles and the creator of the brands, Top Ramen and Cup Noodles. Ando was born Go Pek-Hok () in

neg: William S. Halstead William S. Halstead William Halstead (born "William Storm Halstead", 1903 in Mount Kisco, NY – September 1987 in Los Angeles, CA) was an American inventor. Halstead was a prodigious inventor who held more than 80 patents involving radio and television development. As a student at Haverford College Halstead was instrumental in creating the Haverford College Radio Club, and building and launching its AM radio station WABQ in 1923. It was only the second radio station in Pennsylvania, and was described at the time as having “one of the most unusual forms of aerials ever used by a radio broadcasting station.”

neg: History of New South Wales Australia east of the 135th meridian east between the latitudes of 10°37'S and 43°39'S, which included most of New Zealand except for the southern part of South Island. The First Fleet of 11 vessels carried over a thousand settlers, including 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men). A few days after arrival at Botany Bay the fleet moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where Phillip established a settlement at the place he named Sydney Cove (in honour of the Secretary of State, Lord Sydney) on 26 January 1788. This date later became Australia's national day, Australia Day. The colony

neg: Richmond Rugby Football Club match between the University of British Columbia and the RRFC's men's sides. It is named after former Richmond player Steven Hu, who was injured in a tragic touch rugby accident while enrolled at the University. The RRFC has produced numerous players of distinction who have played representative rugby both for the BC Bears or for the Canadian National team at the junior men's and women's as well as senior men's levels. These include current national team 15's and 7's player Nathan Hirayama, and former team Canada stalwarts Bill Spofford, Jerry Lorenz and Jim Donaldson. Former Canadian Women's National Team player

neg: Interference proceeding States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. See , . At least two parties are involved in an interference proceeding: the inventor(s) or applicant(s) who filed an earlier patent application are called the "senior party", and the other inventor(s) or applicant(s) are called the "junior party". Both parties can be referred as "contestants", but that term is currently more likely to be used to describe the junior party. Presumptions are stated in 37 C.F.R. 41.207(a): On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act into

neg: Zagreb Zagreb. Zagreb's offerings include crystal, china and ceramics, wicker or straw baskets, and top-quality Croatian wines and gastronomic products. Notable Zagreb souvenirs are the tie or "cravat", an accessory named after Croats who wore characteristic scarves around their necks in the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century and the ball-point pen, a tool developed from the inventions by Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, an inventor and a citizen of Zagreb. Many Zagreb restaurants offer various specialties of national and international cuisine. Domestic products which deserve to be tasted include turkey, duck or goose with "mlinci" (a kind of pasta), "štrukli" (cottage

neg: Joseph S. Clark Jr. national tennis champion who won the 1885 U.S. National Championship in doubles with Dick Sears. His mother, whose family owned Avery Island in Louisiana, was the niece of Edmund McIlhenny, the inventor of Tabasco sauce. Clark was raised in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, and received his early education at Chestnut Hill Academy. He then attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he played on the school's baseball and football teams. He graduated from Middlesex in 1919 as class valedictorian. Clark studied at Harvard University, where he was a member of the baseball and track teams. He won several

neg: Blackwall Tunnel on the tunnel ended. The original tunnel as built was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons, between 1892 and 1897, for whom Ernest William Moir was the lead engineer. It was constructed using tunnelling shield and compressed air techniques and a Greathead shield (named after its inventor, James Henry Greathead). It was lit by three rows of incandescent street lights. To clear the site in Greenwich, more than 600 people had to be rehoused, and a house reputedly once owned by Sir Walter Raleigh had to be demolished. The work force was largely drawn

neg: Valerii Kryshen degree theses. His professional interests include surgical diseases and abdominal trauma treatment along with new aspects of elective and urgent surgery.Professor V.Kryshen included in Bristol Who`s who Registry in Medical Practice and High Education heading. Kryshen Valerii is listed by Swiss international collection of Hubner's in biographic encyclopedia of successful Ukrainian "Who is who in Ukraine",published in Germany and included in Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine,printed in Kyiv. Kryshen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was awarded several medals: Merited Inventor of USSR, Silver and Bronze Participant of Achievement Government Exhibition of USSR and UkSSR.

neg: John Ridley (inventor) John Ridley (inventor) John Ridley (26 May 1806 – 25 November 1887) was an English miller, inventor, landowner, investor, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who lived in Australia between 1839 and 1853. He is best known for the development, manufacture and invention of "Ridley's Stripper", a machine that removed the heads of grain, with the threshing being done later by a separate machine. The suburb of Ridleyton in the city of Adelaide, Australia was named for him. Ridley was born near West Boldon, County Durham, England. His father, also John Ridley, was a miller who died when his son

neg: Professor Farnsworth the Professor may be named in honour of its editor Farnsworth Wright. Another possibility is that he is named after the American inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth who appeared in the "Futurama" episode "All The Presidents' Heads" as an ancestor of the Professor and Philip J. Fry. Professor Farnsworth is voiced by Billy West, using a combination of impressions of Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan. He was named after electronic television pioneer Philo Farnsworth, giving him the same first name as University of California Philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, of whom writer and producer Eric Kaplan was a former student.

neg: Anushilan Samiti are commemorated in different forms. Another plaque at the site of Barin Ghose's country house (in present day Ultadanga) marks the site were Ghosh and his group was arrested in the Alipore Bomb case. Many of the "Samiti"'s members are known in India and abroad, and are commemorated in different forms. A number of Calcutta suburbs are today named after revolutionaries and nationalists of the "Samiti". Grey Street, where Aurobindo Ghosh's press office stood, is today named Aurobido "Sarani" (Aurobindo avenue). Dalhousie square was renamed B.B.D Bag, named after Benoy, Badal, and Dinesh who raided the Writer's Building in 1926.

neg: Jerome S. Spevack of , over their use of the Girdler sulfide process without his consent. Jerome S. Spevack Jerome S. "J.S." Spevack was an American scientist, inventor, and engineer who developed the "dual temperature exchange sulphide process" (known as the Girdler sulfide process) in 1943 while working on the Manhattan Project. This is regarded as the most cost-effective process for producing heavy water. A parallel development of this process was also achieved in 1943 by German physical chemist Karl-Hermann Geib. After World War II, Spevack became president of Deuterium of Canada Limited (DCL) and, in 1974, won a lawsuit against the United

neg: Jerome S. Spevack Jerome S. Spevack Jerome S. "J.S." Spevack was an American scientist, inventor, and engineer who developed the "dual temperature exchange sulphide process" (known as the Girdler sulfide process) in 1943 while working on the Manhattan Project. This is regarded as the most cost-effective process for producing heavy water. A parallel development of this process was also achieved in 1943 by German physical chemist Karl-Hermann Geib. After World War II, Spevack became president of Deuterium of Canada Limited (DCL) and, in 1974, won a lawsuit against the United States government and its Atomic Energy of Canada Limited receiving protection, and compensation

neg: Moedjair Experimenting with freshwater habitats, he demonstrated 4 fish can live in saltwater after 11 experiments. These 4 fish, released in rivers and lakes, quickly grew in population. To honor his work, the fish was named mujair in Indonesian, and "mujair" is now a popular freshwater fish in Indonesia. http://billythorpe.com/biography-mujair-inventor-fish-mujair Moedjair Moedjair or Mujair (1890–1957) is a Javanese inventor who in 1939 was the first to culture the fish species "Tilapia zillii", at the mouth of the Serang River, south of Java Island. Moedjair was born Iwan Dalauk in 1890 in Blitar, East Java; he died in the same location in