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Imagine a soft, squishy robot that can navigate narrow passages, grasp objects, and even fix broken circuits. Well, that’s precisely what researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong have created, a magnetic slime robot! #Robotics #Innovation #Technology #Science #Engineering

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Michael Faraday, born to working class parents, was illiterate and he couldn't write. So, he used to draw amazing illustrations to describe physics. #Physics #MagneticField #Science #ForceFields

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AI generated video showing the evolution of the bus from 1820 to 2100. #MachineLearning #Future #Technology #artificalintelligence #AI #AIML #Engineering

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Ramanujan texi number 1729.

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Celebrating the birthday of Peter Cooper Hewitt, the American electrical engineer behind the mercury-vapor lamp, a precursor to fluorescent lights. Hewitt's brilliance found its place in photo studios, illuminating the black and white film of the time. #BornOnThisDay #Innovation

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#BornOnThisDay in 1830, James Starley, a British inventor, hailed as the "Father of the Bicycle Industry." His Coventry and Ariel bikes, especially the latter with center pivot steering, paved the way for modern bicycles. #JamesStarley #BicycleInnovation

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#OnThisDay in 1916, Albert Einstein sent his groundbreaking article to Annalen der Physik, unveiling his solution to a decade-long scientific puzzle - the "General Theory of Relativity." #Einstein #Physics

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Working of a shaping machine.

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"This summer I have discovered something totally useless." ~ Prof. Peter Higgs (Physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of ‘God Particle’) (May-1929 to April-2024)

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Although, the concept of interchangeable parts is thousands of years old, Eli Whitney [1765-1825] has often been credited with inventing/popularizing the idea, which he used in the making of muskets. It is one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution. 2/2

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Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are identical for practical purposes. They are manufactured to strict standards that guarantee they will fit into any assembly designed for that particular kind of component. 1/2

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A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. ~ Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 - 2 Feb 1970)

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#BornOnThisDay Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was an English physician who developed the smallpox vaccine, revolutionizing medicine and paving the way for modern immunization. His work saved countless lives and led to the eradication of smallpox. Jenner also introduced the word virus.

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Today is the birth anniversary of a scholar, inventor, and the third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson. He was a fossil classifier. He was interested in the experiments being made in submarines. He practiced scientific farming and was always on the lookout for a new plant.

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Born #OnThisday in 1748, Joseph Bramah, an English inventor and locksmith, invented the hydraulic press. It is the machine used as the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever.

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#BornOnThisDay in 1952, German mathematician, Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann, was the first to confirm that "π" is transcendental (that is, it is not the solution of any algebraic equation with rational coefficients).

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"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" ~ Yuri Gagarin (Russian cosmonaut; first person to travel into space)

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Today is the birth anniversary of a German physicist, Thomas Johann Seebeck, who found in 1821 that an electric current moves between different conductive materials that are kept at different temperatures, known as the Seebeck effect. It served foundation for the thermocouple.

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When the photographer Arthur Sasse asked physicist Albert Einstein to smile for the camera on his 72nd birthday on 14 March 1951 – this is the image that was taken.

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#OnThisDay in history: 145 years ago American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) patented the sound recording & reproducing phonograph machine. It later came to known as gramophone.