Science

People Behind Inventions: Hybrid Gasoline/Electric Car

More than 20 years ago two inventors built a hybrid car. This was prior to Toyota's development of the hybrid car.

Technology of Future Generations

Idea of building a large flat display that can be used as a TV screen or computer monitor is not new. This idea was explored for decades

Father of modern television

(From The New Encyclopedia Britanica, 15th edition, Volume 12, p.947)

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma, Russian-born U.S. electronic engineer, inventor, and the father of modern television.
He emigrated to the United States in 1919 and became a naturalized citizen in 1924.

Edison's Electric Bulb: Financial account

Few know that Tomas Alva Edison received about one million dollars from the Morgan Financial Group for the development of his electric bulb in 1880. When Edison finally finished the project and brought electrical light and power to the world, in the shine of this light he found the patent for his bulb entirely in the possession of Morgan!

About Us in The Kansas City Star

Commentary: Mike Hendricks

Club unites immigrants

Published in The Kansas City Star on January 17, 2000

Now, 10,000 papers are printed monthly, or whenever enough money is raised to cover expenses. Half of each eight-page issue is in Russian, half in Eglish. It's distriibuted free at 100 locations, including public libraries.

Standup Wheelchairs and How Charitable Organizations Treat the Problem

Handicapped and elderly people who use wheelchairs constitute 2% of the U.S. population, or about 5.2 million people. How many people who use wheelchairs are there in the Greater Kansas City area? The answer is about 40,000!

Chair

In addition to providing handicapped people with reasonably priced products, the Shapiros also want to provide some of them with jobs. That is why they approached Doug Hays, executive director of Kansas City's Vocational Service, about employing disabled people at JVS' sheltered workshop to assemble parts of the wheelchairs.

Probe to test Einstein

After over 40 years of research, construction, and anticipation, and about $500 million spent, Gravity Probe B, the NASA experiment, will finally see launch early next year. GPB, as it is commonly called, will test Einstein's general theory of relativity, notably two effects called "space-time frame dragging" and "geodetic precession."

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