1 : the act of conducting or conveying. 2a : transmission through or by means of a conductor; also : the transfer of heat through matter by communication of kinetic energy from particle to particle with no net displacement of the particles â compare convection, radiationb : conductivity.
The name ping-pong was in wide use before English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name Ping-Pong then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques equipment, with other manufacturers calling theirs table tennis.
The Man Who Invented Vaping: A Homage to Hon Lik. We need to start off by acknowledging another manâHerbert A. Gilbert from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In 1963, heavy smoker Gilbert came up with the idea of a battery-powered device with a heating element that could produce vapourâa rudimentary e-cigarette. But the idea never came to fruition. Hon Lik, on the other hand, not only devised a working e-cigarette 40 years later in 2003, he patented the idea and brought it to market in China. He and other companies started exporting to the USA and Europe in 2009, and the rest is history.