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Older inventors are riding a rising tide of American innovation
2015-05-23 04:28:06| Chemicals - Topix.net
Like many inventors, Bob Nepper, 82, is a compulsive improver. Nepper, an electrical engineer who lives in North St. Paul, Minn., has pet projects that have included a self-guided lawn mower and an outside faucet that can run hot and cold.
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More older adults are becoming inventors
2015-04-26 12:52:15| Chemicals - Topix.net
Like many inventors, Bob Nepper, 82, is a compulsive improver. Nepper, an electrical engineer who lives in North St. Paul, Minn., has pet projects that have included a self-guided lawn mower and an outside faucet that can run hot and cold.
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Suffolk Inventors Club to Meet
2014-11-18 16:33:07| Semiconductors - Topix.net
The November 18th meeting of the Suffolk County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club will highlight the resources available to assist LI businesses enter the global marketplace. Various initiatives and programs will be explored that focus on how inventors can expand US sales to overseas markets for their products or services.
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Nobel Prize Goes to Inventors Blue LED: Why It Was Revolutionary
2014-10-07 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics went Tuesday to three scientists who gave lighting a makeover by inventing blue LED lights. The award recognizes a seemingly commonplace innovation, but one that has paved the way for a sea change in lighting efficiency that is under way around the world. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED) in Japan in the early 1990s, triggering a "fundamental transformation of lighting technology," according to a press...
Blue LED inventors awarded Nobel Prize for creating white LED lighting revolution
2014-10-07 13:40:42| Extremetech
The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in the creation of the bright white LED lights being produced by the likes of Cree and Philips, which are driving the most significant transformation in lighting technology since the invention of the incandescent bulb.