Due to a request from the Raleigh News & Observer (N&O), and in line with North Carolinaâs State Personnel Law, UNC Health Care will share an updated salary database with the N&O in mid-February. We do not know when the N&O will publish this information.
(Accessed March 2, 2011). Shortly after John Hetrick had witnessed an automobile accident he received a patent in 1953 for a âsafety cushion assembly for automotive vehicles.â His U.S. Patent No. 2,649,311 was the first prototype for airbags. 5.
Leonardo da Vinci at the beginning of the 16th century was credited with inventing the first hygrometer that used a ball of wool to provide this indication of humidity level. First Mechanical Air Cooler. Da Vinci was likely the first to use a mechanical air cooler. This air cooler consisted of a hollow water wheel with an air passage constructed to guide the air from the water wheel to his patron's wife's boudoir. The air was cooled by the splashing and evaporation of water during operation of the water wheel.