Frozen heat: energy locked in ice!. The United Nations Environment Programme via its collaborating center in Norway, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, has undertaken an assessment of the state of the knowledge of naturally occurring methane gas hydrates.
With the royalties from G-Force sales, James Dyson was able to set up his own company, Dyson Ltd. In 1993 he opened his own research centre and factory in the Cotswolds, and set to work making a new vacuum â one that would capture even smaller particles of dust.
The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, was very important because it quickly and easily separated the cotton fibers from the seedpods to reduce time of processing the cotton for use so the slaves could work faster and get more product for their masters in the same amount of time as before.