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In 1930, an American lab technician invented a transparent adhesive tape revolutionizing the whole industry by creating a modern and commercially successful product: How Richard Drew changed the world?In 1930, an American lab technician invented a transparent adhesive tape that became a commercial product and changed the tape industry. Ri...- In 1920, a husband’s homemade fix for his wife’s finger cuts led to the adhesive strip revolution in everyday medicine that changed how people treat cuts and scrapesEarle Dickson's home-grown invention, the Band-Aid, revolutionized minor wound care. Frustrated by gauze slipping and bandages failing, he ...
- In 1930, a 3M engineer testing cellophane made a clear strip that sealed better than glue: It led to the creation of Scotch tapeIn the bustling innovation hub of 3M during the late 1920s, Richard Gurley Drew unveiled a revolutionary product: transparent tape. This cl...
- The Man Behind Bit-ConCraig Steven Wright of nChain claimed to be Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, facing legal disputes with the crypto industry over his as...
- Bengaluru-based Calligo Tech to receive first silicon with posit computing capability this monthThe semiconductor startup Calligo Tech is expecting its first silicon for general-purpose computing with an alternative number system Posit...
- 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull - thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record companyThe first computed tomography image - a CT scan - of the human brain was made 50 years ago, on October 1, 1971. Hounsfield never made it to...
- Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, passes away at 94A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, Ottens joined Philips in 1952.
- How much is an idea worth? In Uber’s case, $3.7 billionDara Khosrowshahi is determined to convince investors that Uber is a different company today—a diversified business that’s ethically run an...
- Mumbai-based scientist Ravindra Kumar is creating stars' temperatures on his tabletopRavindra Kumar assembled the equipment, at a cost of around Rs 15 cr, to study matter at extreme conditions.
- German physics Nobel laureate Peter Gruenberg dead at 78Gruenberg received the 2007 Nobel prize for physics for giant magnetoresistance (GMR) which led to a breakthrough in the development of gig...
- Meet Hakim Raja, the Bengaluru-born techie who's leading Google's quest for futuristic hardwareHakim Raja is a relative newcomer to Google who was contemplating a year-long travel through South America before he was waylaid by Google'...
- How Blippar's Ambarish Mitra went from living in Delhi's slum to founding a billion-dollar companyLiving in the slums, Mitra went door-to-door in the city selling magazine subscriptions by day. At night, he worked in a tea stall.
- How one CEO went from a teenage runaway living in an Indian slum to founding a billion-dollar companyWith one IPO under his belt, Ambarish Mitra now has a billion-dollar augmented reality advertising company, Blippar.
- Material Graphene: the new wonderkid to rejig major industriesNovoselov and his former professor Andre Geim, also of Manchester University, had won the Physics Nobel Prize last year for their discovery.
- Standard & Poor credit rating: Obama asks lawmakers to work together to help grow US economyUS President Barack Obama today asked the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties to work together to grow the economy and ge...
- Videocon in talks to make, sell Philips TVDeal may help indian firm compete better with Korean brands.
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