The checkered history of powered toothbrushes reveals how batteries wrought a tremendous sacrifice of power and imagination for the sake of size and profit. Let us stumble down memory lane.
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A Cleveland, Ohio entrepreneur, Silesius Horvak, commissioned Allis-Chalmers to construct one of the world’s largest steam engines as the power source for the Steam-O-Dent Oral De-Tartarizator. […]
Posted in Business, Nuclear Issues, Great Britain, Environment, USA, Personal Products, Automobiles, Science, NASA, Industrial Design, Industry, Dental Hygiene, Battery, Cosmology, U.S. Navy, Aircraft, Public Works Projects, Steam Engines |
“Prehistoric, short-necked plesiosaur was as large as a bus”
This article about the discovery of twenty-eight Jurassic behemoths mentioned that the plesiosaurs teeth were as big as cucumbers and its vertebrae were the size of dinner plates. I trust them, but their yardsticks no longer carry the same shock value. It is time for scientists to […]
Posted in Nature, Education, Television, Baseball, Norway, Cuisine, Communications, Science, Football, Radio, Hair Care, Industrial Design, South America, KANSAS, Scandinavia |
Let the mundane become extraordinary with balloon white wall tyres.
Posted in Business, Industrial Design |
Posted in Business, Advertising, Industrial Design |
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