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This is a question my dad, Read Viemeister, and his teachers at Pratt, Rowena Reed, Donald Dohner, and Gordon Lippincott, were trying to answer way back in the 1940s! In the spring of 1943 Donald Dohner, chair of the industrial design department at Pratt Institute, proposed to Charlie Whitney of Whitney Publications that he add an industrial design ...

U pinder Singh , daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was one of the recipients of the inaugural Infosys Prize who were felicitated at a function in New Delhi on Monday.

I had the opportunity to view this film in IMAX/3-D, this being the first time I've ever experienced the 3-D side of film.

ThinkProgress has discovered , by way of a cool new invention known as The Internet, that Scott Rasmussen has in fact conducing polling on behalf of partisan clients, in particular the RNC and the Bush re-election campaign , both during 2003-04. This appears to contradict all but the most absurdly lawyerly readings of a statement on Rasmussen ...

The national union of Algerian inventors plans to create an electronic invention centre by the end of 2010, Algerian news agency reported quoting Kharoubi Mohamed, the union's president, as saying on Thursday in Oran, 432km west of capital Algiers.

The Culture Vulture looks back on 2009: January>> Rep. Jason Chaffetz lost a leg-wrestling match to Stephen Colbert, and then -- because he had apparently forgotten about the invention of videotape -- disputed the results.

With hindsight, I believe we can look back over the decade just finished and see ten years in which a fundamental transformation took place in the culture of computing, one that finally acknowledged the central role that people - the ultimate end users - play in computing.

Can't quite settle on a New Year's resolution? How about this: Resolve not to repeat the media's mantra of America in decline.

In part four of a series celebrating entrepreneurial success, Diana Clement talks to some No 8 wire inventors who have been there.

January 2, 2010 - Natalie B. Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI displays trains, planes, and automobiles that reveal the history of their technical evolution.A On display are early vehicles - including steam and electric powered cars - some made by the many auto companies that died out early on.A Walking through the exhibits one can see the many ...

The editorial of Dec. 15 regarding libraries is disconcerting for many reasons. First, the language: "Although property owners in many communities pay for the libraries through taxes, they're utilizing their services more than ever." Huh? Later, there are the "facts:" "More than 200 years ago, when many communities in this part of the country were ...

The creator of the mosquito device, which emits a high-pitched squeal only audible to those under 20, has condemned the uncontrolled use of the machine to create no go areas for teens and youngsters, after it was used at Teignmouth train station during the school run, but there's still no plans to regulate its use.

" Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs " Anna Faris Sony An unappreciated inventor creates a device that rains tasty food from the sky.

THE inventor of the McDonald's quarter pounder, Al Bernardin, has died of a stroke, aged 81.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Agriculture Association has joined hands with the Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action and the Agri Friends Forum for Promotion of Agriculture to organise a State-level Children's Agriculture Science Congress here on January 22 and 23.

A bit farfetched? Executives at consumer-products king Procter & Gamble Co. thought so, too, and sent the idea to the discard pile.

Time magazine got this started with an issue devoted to great inventions. So we asked members of E-Mail Interactive Group to suggest the best inventions of all time, and the inventions they would like to see.

Town Historian Ron Gagliardi has been snubbed by the folks at Merriam-Webster Dictionary for more than 40 years, so now he's going to throw the book at 'em. Gagliardi, 62, is starting a wordcoining contest and inviting wordsmiths everywhere to submit their long-snubbed entries to a project he thinks may produce some new entries for the big book of ...

The media are full of reports of the worst decade, America in decline, the end of the US century.

Emily Blunt has a suggestion for all those sticklers who demand real history in their film biographies.