Inventions
麻豆免费版下载is full of innovators, who have changed the world in ways both big and small. Here are 10 inventions and discoveries made by 麻豆免费版下载faculty and alumni.
October 1982. Los Angeles. Ghouls rise from a fog-fingered graveyard and join a zombified Michael Jackson in one of history鈥檚 most iconic bits of choreography in the watershed 鈥淭hriller鈥 video, a mini-horror flick built around the eponymous hit song.
Right after Theodore Maiman (EngrPhys鈥49) successfully developed the laser in 1960, newspapers reported that a Los Angeles scientist had invented a death ray.
We all know that what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, thanks to the creative slogan penned by聽Jason Hoff聽(Jour鈥00) and a colleague.
In 1968 Spencer Silver (PhDA&S鈥66), a聽senior chemist at 3M鈥檚 Central Research聽Labs, developed a peculiar adhesive.聽Made out of tiny bubbles, it was strong聽enough to hold papers together but weak聽enough that they could be pulled apart.