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Contact Lens The first contact lens was made by German physiologist Adolf Fick in 1887. Fick's lens was made of glass and was a so-called scleral lens because it covered the sclera, the white part of the eye.
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- Adults are considered overweight if they are 1 or more pounds over a healthy weight. They are obese if they weigh 30 or more pounds too much. Height-weight charts determine kids' weight status. NPD puts people who are overweight and obese in the same category, not separating percentages of obesity.
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JUST THE FACTS MOBILE PHONES AND TEXT MESSAGING 1973 — First mobile call The first call made on a mobile phone is made in April by Dr. Galileo’s telescope Sir Isaac Newton • See page 18 HALLEY’S COMET 6 7 46 47 INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC 6–11 Inventions Timeline 46–51 Inventor Biographies TWO QUICK WAYS TO FIND A FACT: Look at the detailed CONTENTS list on page 3 to find your topic of interest.
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The 1962 Spy Exchange of Powers for Abel First Prisoner Exchange Between the Superpowers | Glienicker Bridge. On Saturday, February 10, 1962, twenty-one months after his capture, pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged in a spy swap for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher (aka Rudolf Ivanovich Abel) at the now famous Glienicke Bridge. American student Frederic Pryor was also released at the same time at Checkpoint Charlie.
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Television The world's first 625-line television standard was designed in the Soviet Union in 1944, and became a national standard in 1946. The first broadcast in 625-line standard occurred in 1948 in Moscow. The concept of 625 lines per frame was subsequently implemented in the European CCIR standard.
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When Were Contact Lenses Invented? Next FAQ >. Though contact lenses seem to be a recent phenomenon, the famous Italian architect, mathematician and inventor Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) produced the first known sketches (in 1508) that suggested the optics of the human eye could be altered by placing the cornea directly in contact with water.
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- On his return he abandoned a career in Law to pursue one in writing. In 1825 the daily newspaper The Representative appeared: it was founded by Disraeli and John Murray but it lasted only a few months. However, his first novel, Vivien Grey was published in April 1826, earning him £200.n his return he abandoned a career in Law to pursue one in writing. In 1825 the daily newspaper The Representative appeared: it was founded by Disraeli and John Murray but it lasted only a few months. However, his first novel, Vivien Grey was published in April 1826, earning him £200.
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The Young and the Restless (Soap Opera) Part 2 â Snapper Foster The Young and the Restless (Soap Opera) Part 2 – Snapper Foster. By on November 28, 2012 in Soap Operas. Dr. William “Snapper” Foster Jr. was an original character since the show went on the air in 1973, the role was played by William Gray Espy from March 26, 1973 to July 1975, and David Hasselhoff from 1975 to May 1982.
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The First Colour Television Transmission John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of a colour television transmission on July 3rd, 1928. The leading pioneer in the creation of television, John Logie Baird, was a Scotsman, born in 1888, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and educated in Glasgow. An electrical engineer and an eccentric genius, he was no businessman, his health was precarious and after a time spent marketing socks, jam and soap he suffered a nervous breakdown.
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Haynes International Haynes had recently received a patent for a metal he created, which he named Stellite. In 1920, the company was purchased by Union Carbide. In 1922, the company invented its first alloy under the Hastelloy brand, derived from the first letters of the words Haynes Stellite Alloy. In  1927, Charles Lindberg's aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, which included hard-surfaced engine valves manufactured by Haynes, crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
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Transatlantic communications cable TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship Monarch. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956, initially carrying 36 telephone channels.In the first 24 hours of public service there were 588 London–U.S. calls and 119 from London to Canada. The capacity of the cable was soon increased to 48 channels.here have been a succession of newer transatlantic cable systems. All recent systems have used fiber optic transmission, and a self-healing ring topology. Late in the 20th century, communications satellites lost most of their North Atlantic telephone traffic to these low cost, high capacity, low latency cables.
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Color photography The first color photograph made by the three-color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton. The subject is a colored ribbon, usually described as a tartan ribbon.nstant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963. Like Polaroid's contemporary instant black-and-white film, their first color product was a negative-positive peel-apart process which produced a unique print on paper. The negative could not be re-used and was discarded.
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The First Colour Television Transmission The First Colour Television Transmission. John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of a colour television transmission on July 3rd, 1928. John Logie BairdThe leading pioneer in the creation of television, John Logie Baird, was a Scotsman, born in 1888, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and educated in Glasgow.
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Da Vinci to Disposable: A History of Contact Lenses The first physical example of the lens was made by artificial eye-maker F. A. Mueller in 1887. These types of contact lenses were called scleral lenses, and they covered the entire eye, not just the cornea.
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- | Filed Under: Firsts 11 Comments. The Television was invented a lot earlier than you might think. The first electrically transmitted TV pictures were the work of J.L. Baird, who built his first TV system in 1926. J.L. Baird was Scottish, and was born in Helensburgh, Scotland.
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Reunion (short story) Reunion is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in 1962, and later included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978).Contents.harlie, the narrator, recalls an afternoon meeting as a boy with his father while transferring trains at Grand Central Station in New York City. The boy is innocent and naive and expects his meeting with his father to be an opportunity to reconnect.
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The Philadelphia Experiment  ( 1984) In 1943, the United States tests an anti-radar system to make the U.S. Navy ships invisible to the enemy. Dr. James Longstreet uses his experiment in the destroyer escort USS Eldridge that disappears from Philadelphia. The sailors David Herdeg and his best friend Jim Parker are projected to 1984, where they meet Allison Hayes.
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- My First Scuppers Made in White Painted Aluminum (1996) This is a set of scupper we were contracted to recreate back in 1996 out of pre-painted aluminum. They were for the outlets of the flat roof on an apartment building at 23rd N. E. Broadway in Portland Oregon.
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Television The world's first 625-line television standard was designed in the Soviet Union in 1944 and became a national standard in 1946. The first broadcast in 625-line standard occurred in Moscow in 1948. The concept of 625 lines per frame was subsequently implemented in the European CCIR standard.
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- The picture on the left above shows the first point contact transistor built by Walter Brattain. It consisted of a plastic triangle lightly suspended above a germanium crystal which itself was sitting on a metal plate attached to a voltage source.
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40 years of the mobile phone: Top 20 facts By 1990 there were a million users. The first mobile phone call made in the UK was in 1985 when comedian Ernie Wise called from London to Vodafone's offices in Newbury, Berkshire. Mobile phones went on sale here two years later costing £1,200 each and became the must–have gadget of the yuppie.y 1990 there were a million users. The first mobile phone call made in the UK was in 1985 when comedian Ernie Wise called from London to Vodafone's offices in Newbury, Berkshire. Mobile phones went on sale here two years later costing £1,200 each and became the must–have gadget of the yuppie.
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- First Date with DISA. by Alexander Hansal / on March 7, 2016 / in DISA, Open UI / 9 Comments. Hi There! This content is accessible only to logged in, registered users of the Siebel Hub. To Register takes only 10 seconds and uses LinkedIn or VKontakte for authentication.
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When Were Contact Lenses Invented? But it was more than 50 years later that someone actually produced such lenses, and there is some controversy about who did it first. Some reports say German glassblower F.A. Muller used Herschel's ideas to create the first known glass contact lens in 1887.
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- The following year, in 1877, the first telephone system was put in place in Hartford, Connecticut, whilst the first exchange which linked two cities, was established between both Boston and New York in 1883. London hosted the first exchange put into practice outside the United States in 1879.
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Timeline This is the timeline of events for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Interestingly, in Build 1935, the game was supposed to begin on August 1, 2015, 4:30 PM. In other builds, the date is constant - May 1, 2012. Limansk is founded as a closed city for scientists working on affecting human minds with the use of radiowaves. The city soon gains notoriety among neighbouring villages.
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Philo T. Farnsworth Biography By 1926, he was able to raise the funds to continue his scientific work and move to San Francisco with his new wife, Elma Pem Gardner Farnsworth. The following year, he unveiled his all-electronic television prototype—the first of its kind—made possible by a video camera tube or image dissector.. This was the same device that Farnsworth had sketched in his chemistry class as a teenager.