21. Popular Beachwear
October 26, 2009
Swimsuits for wear in the water are the first item that you would want to decide on when going to the beach with two main types for women the one piece maillot or the two piece bikini style made up of panty and bra. Although quite often these are worn as fashion items with the wearer having no inte...
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22. Outboard Motor Basics
October 26, 2009
An outboard motor is just a self contained engine that sits outside rather than inside a boat. Most engines are comprised of the basic engine and a cooling system plus associated electrics that are required to make it work and then attached to the engine would be a gearbox which in turn would be con...
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23. Early History of Suzuki
October 26, 2009
Suzuki takes its name from Michio Suzuki who was born in a village called Hamamatsu which is located on the Japanese coast about one hundred miles outside Tokyo in the year 1887. This areas main industry was textiles producing both the textiles and the machinery or looms as they are called that prod...
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24. History Of Yamaha
October 26, 2009
Yamaha began life in 1887 when Torakusu Yamaha repaired a school organ and decided to try starting a business building and selling these musical instruments. Torakusu had always been good working with machinery as after training as a watch maker he worked repairing hospital equipment. He founded the...
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25. Mercury Outboard Motors History
October 26, 2009
Carl Kiekhaefer had never planned to have anything to do with outboard motors when he graduated as an engineer from college. His original plan was to design and manufacture magnetic separators for use within the dairy industry. He bought a failing Cedarburg outboard engine company with financial bac...
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26. The First Evinrude Outboard
October 26, 2009
Evinrude outboard motors take their name from the man who designed and built his first outboard way back in 1907. That man was called Ole Evinrude who was Norwegian being born in April 1877 in the city of Oslo. At the age of five his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Cambridge, W...
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27. Samsung Nanotechnology at Home
June 25, 2009
What does nanotechnology mean? Well it involves understanding and working with materials on a level of size where they are billionths of a meter in size. At this size certain materials have very important qualities and can easily penetrate into other materials at a molecular or atomic level. First ...
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28. History Of General Electric
June 25, 2009
Thomas Edison was credited with inventing the light bulb in a research laboratory he set up in 1876 and this is his major credit to fame. What most people don’t know is that he was one of the main founders of the General Electric Company. Edison had by 1990 built up a number of separate business ven...
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29. Refrigerator Development History
June 25, 2009
Records show that as far back as 1,000 BC the Chinese cut ice in the winter and stored it to use in warmer weather. This method has been used extensively with ice houses being built throughout the 18th century specifically for this purpose. It is also known that in 500 BC Egyptians made use of ice b...
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30. Methods Of Food Preservation
June 25, 2009
Preservation of food can done in many ways other than using a refrigerator and here we will look at some of these options. First let’s ask ourselves a question. Why do need to preserve food? Well simply put food is essentially biological and was at one point alive and just like us when we die we sta...
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Author: James Thompson
