Phone: 313-577-5142. The Office of Student Financial Aid assists eligible students in meeting their educational expenses while attending Wayne State University. Assistance is provided through grants, scholarships, student employment, and loans. We encourage you to consider all options before incurring loan debt.
The Burpee is named for a physiologist named Royal Huddleston Burpee. For his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1940, he invented the exercise as a way to assess the fitness of non-active adults.
See the original patent and drawings for the invention of Velcro. The invention of Velcro was created by Swiss engineer, George de Mestral. He received a patent from the Swiss government in 1955 and was subsequently granted patents from other countries around the world.he invention of Velcro was created by Swiss engineer, George de Mestral.