(Encyclopedia) automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with…
(Encyclopedia) perpetual-motion machine, device that would be able to operate continuously and supply useful work, in violation of the laws of thermodynamics. A machine that would produce more energy…
(Encyclopedia) Howe, Elias, 1819–67, American inventor, b. Spencer, Mass. He was apprenticed in 1838 to an instrument maker and watchmaker in Boston at whose suggestion he turned his attention to…
EFFICIENCYPOWERJOULESFIND OUT MOREScientists use the word work to describe the energy needed to do a task, by making a force move through a distance. The amount of work done is equal to the…
engineer, computer inventorBorn: 2/29/1860Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. When children ask their parents, “Where did computers come from?” one answer might be, “From the entrepreneurial vision that…
Born: 1819Birthplace: Danville, Pa. Typewriting machine—Publisher and politician Sholes invented the first practical typewriting machine (the name was coined by the Scientific American journal).…
Born: 1819 Sewing Machine. Howe invented the first practical sewing machine after watching his wife sew. His machine's locked-stitch technique is still used today.Died: 1867
entrepreneurDied: Aug. 28, 2007 (Ocala, Fla.) Best Known as: developer of Nautilus fitness machines Jones changed how many people exercise with the introduction…
