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Commentary: Velcro from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... He donned a pair of coveralls made of Velcro hooks, bounced from a trampoline into a wall covered with Velcro loops, where he stuck. Now that the Velcro ... 2.
Commentary: Hazel Biship from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life ... The first modern cosmetic was smear-proof lipstick. It was invented by the chemist Hazel Bishop. Like many women of her time, Bishop found work in ... 3.
Commentary: Baseball from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... Baseball: A Public Radio Commentary by Bill Hammack Listen using RealAudio. This week the All Star game marks mid-season for baseball. ... 4.
Commentary: Jell-O from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... The collagen in Jell-O comes from cows and pigs, but it goes through so many steps of processing that the FDA doesn't consider it a meat product; in fact, ... 5.
Commentary: Jell-O from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... I think, though, there is a fundamental reason that Jell-O will always be with us. It's this: Jell-O is like us. I've learned that if you hook up an EEG ... 6.
William S. Hammack Department of Chemical Engineering 600 South ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML [13] "Engineering & Life" delivered to the Champaign-Urbana YMCA's "Know. Your University" series March 6, 2001. [14] "Engineering & Life" delivered to the ... 7.
Commentary: Henry Dreyfuss from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life ... Henry Dreyfuss: A Public Radio Commentary by Bill Hammack Listen using RealAudio. I have, in my office, a black telephone that's over fifty years old. ... 8.
Commentary: Glowing Hockey Puck from Bill Hammack's Engineering ... Last night at a dinner party someone leaned over and said to me "How exactly do they make the hockey puck glow?" I thought they were drunk, but I found out ... 9.
Commentary: Glo-sheet from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... "I thought," she said later, that "it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow." And with that Becky decided to invent glowing paper. ... 10.
Commentary: Vaseline from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio ... Right in your medicine cabinet is one of the very first products made from oil. Its that jar of vaseline, known generically as petroleum jelly. ... |
