"the Weissmuller films, even though they shared a jungle treehouse and (particularly in the second film of the series, ""Tarzan and His Mate"") a strong sexual chemistry. In keeping with Motion Picture Production Code requirements, their son ""Boy"" was found and adopted rather than born to Jane. The ""Boy"" character, played by Johnny Sheffield, appeared in eight consecutive films in the series, starting with ""Tarzan Finds a Son"" (1939). Weissmüller's yodel-like ""Tarzan yell"" became so associated with the character that it was sometimes dubbed into later films featuring different actors. Cheeta the chimpanzee provided comic relief through the series. Due"
"the Charles Goodyear Medal. Joseph C. Patrick Dr. Joseph Cecil Patrick (August 28, 1892 – April 12, 1965) invented Thiokol, America's first synthetic rubber in the early 1920s. While seeking a formulation for automotive antifreeze, he attempted to hydrolyze ethylene dichloride with sodium polysulfide. In doing so, he produced a brown, insoluble gum that later became known as Thiokol. He solved commercial production problems by inventing the suspension polymerization process, and solved compounding problems by degrading high molecular weight polymer to a low molecular weight liquid polymer. This material is one of the principal binders for rocket propellant. Patrick was"
"Joseph C. Patrick Dr. Joseph Cecil Patrick (August 28, 1892 – April 12, 1965) invented Thiokol, America's first synthetic rubber in the early 1920s. While seeking a formulation for automotive antifreeze, he attempted to hydrolyze ethylene dichloride with sodium polysulfide. In doing so, he produced a brown, insoluble gum that later became known as Thiokol. He solved commercial production problems by inventing the suspension polymerization process, and solved compounding problems by degrading high molecular weight polymer to a low molecular weight liquid polymer. This material is one of the principal binders for rocket propellant. Patrick was the 1958 recipient of"
"Charles Martin Crandall Charles Martin Crandall (May 30, 1833 – Jun 25, 1905) was an American inventor and toy-maker. He was best known for various toy blocks, ""Crandall's Acrobats"", ""Noah's Dominoes"", ""Illuminated Pictorial Alphabet"", ""District School"", ""Menagerie"", ""Pigs in Clover"" game and numerous other games and wooden toys such as wooden trains with interconnecting cars. Crandall began working in his father's woodworking and furniture factory in Covington, Pennsylvania and at the age of twelve began inventing toys. When his father died in 1849, Crandall took over the factory at age sixteen. By 1866 Crandall moved the company to Montrose, Pennsylvania"
"Torture Cell. This cell is a variation of Houdini's original creation, with an inner cage and two outer crossbars. Chinese Water Torture Cell The Chinese Water Torture Cell is a predicament escape made famous by Hungarian-American magician Harry Houdini. The illusion consists of three parts: first, the magician's feet are locked in stocks; next, he is suspended in mid-air from his ankles with a restraint brace; finally, he is lowered into a glass tank overflowing with water and the restraint is locked to the top of the cell. The original Chinese Water Torture Cell was built in England in 1911."
"Stanley Weston (inventor) Stanley Weston (April 1, 1933 – May 1, 2017) was an American inventor and licensing agent who created the G.I. Joe toy line in 1963, as well as the very concept of the action figure. Weston later sold the rights to his invention, which he called ""outfitted action figures"", to Hasbro for just $100,000 dollars. He later created his own company, Leisure Concepts, which represented and licensed products based on the likeness of Farrah Fawcett, Star Wars, and Nintendo. During the 1980s, Weston oversaw the creation of the ""ThunderCats"" animated series (1985–1989), which spawned the successful ThunderCats"
"Johann Dzierzon Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon or Dzierżoń , also John Dzierzon (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906), was a pioneering Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees and designed the first successful movable-frame beehive. Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia. Trained in theology, he combined his theoretical and practical work in apiculture with his duties as a Roman Catholic priest, before being compulsorily retired by the Church and eventually excommunicated. His discoveries and innovations made him world-famous in scientific and bee-keeping circles, and he has been described as the ""father of modern"
"puzzle] brought him was lost on theatrical ventures"". Pigs in Clover was used as a plot device, and part of the central theme of, HBO's"" Westworld"" series with a modified layout, but in the same circular box. Charles Martin Crandall Charles Martin Crandall (May 30, 1833 – Jun 25, 1905) was an American inventor and toy-maker. He was best known for various toy blocks, ""Crandall's Acrobats"", ""Noah's Dominoes"", ""Illuminated Pictorial Alphabet"", ""District School"", ""Menagerie"", ""Pigs in Clover"" game and numerous other games and wooden toys such as wooden trains with interconnecting cars. Crandall began working in his father's woodworking and"
"George Nissen George Peter Nissen (February 3, 1914 – April 7, 2010) was an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport and recreation. Born in Blairstown, Iowa, Nissen became a keen gymnast in high school and won three NCAA gymnastics championships while a student at the University of Iowa. Nissen went to high school at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nissen was also an initiated member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity while he was in school. He had seen circus trapeze artists use their safety nets as an elastic"
"to Jayendra Yogendra at the International Yoga Festival in New Delhi on March 22, 2018. Jayadeva Yogendra Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra (1929–2018) was an Indian yoga guru, researcher, author, educator and president of The Yoga Institute, the oldest organized yoga center in the world, founded by Yogendra in 1918. Dr. Yogendra was known for studies on therapeutic effects of Yoga. He pioneered yoga education and written several books on the therapeutic effects of the ancient science, including Yoga Therapy in Asthma, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In 1991, Dr. Jayadeva designed the first standardized yoga syllabus for National"
"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere. Although many of Teilhard's writings were censored by the Catholic Church during his lifetime because of his views on original sin, Teilhard has been posthumously praised by Pope"
"Charles Pravaz Charles Gabriel Pravaz (24 March 1791 – 24 June 1853) was a French orthopedic surgeon and inventor of the hypodermic syringe. While the concept dated to Galen, the modern syringe is thought to have originated in 15th-century Italy, although it took several centuries for the device to be developed. In 1657, experiments were conducted on syringe-like devices by Englishmen Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle, while French physician Dominique Anel created the modern pump syringe as a device to clean wounds using suction. In all these cases, it was impossible to perform injections without an incision until Irish physician"
"Chinese Water Torture Cell The Chinese Water Torture Cell is a predicament escape made famous by Hungarian-American magician Harry Houdini. The illusion consists of three parts: first, the magician's feet are locked in stocks; next, he is suspended in mid-air from his ankles with a restraint brace; finally, he is lowered into a glass tank overflowing with water and the restraint is locked to the top of the cell. The original Chinese Water Torture Cell was built in England in 1911. Houdini first performed the escape for an audience of one person as part of a one-act play he called"
"Cartesian diver A Cartesian diver or Cartesian devil is a classic science experiment, named for René Descartes, which demonstrates the principle of buoyancy (Archimedes’ principle) and the ideal gas law. René Descartes is said to have invented the toy. However the first written description of this device is due to Raffaello Magiotti, in his book ""Renitenza certissima dell'acqua alla compressione"" (Very firm resistance of water to compression) published in 1648. The experiment requires a large water-filled bottle inside which is a ""diver"" — a small, rigid tube, open at one end, very similar to an eyedropper with just enough air"
"Candido Jacuzzi Candido Enzo Jacuzzi (24 February 1903 – 7 October 1986) was an Italian immigrant to the United States of America. Candido Jacuzzi invented the Jacuzzi whirlpool bath for his 15-month-old son, Kenny Jacuzzi, who was born with rheumatoid arthritis. He developed a pump that enabled a whirlpool to be created in a bath as a hydrotherapeutic device for pain relief. Candido invented the first self-contained Jacuzzi tub and filed the first patent for it. The patent for the first portable Jacuzzi was filed in 1963, Patent and also for the first self-contained Jacuzzi Whirlpool filed in 1964 and"
"marketed in 1968 as the first Hydrotherapy Tub states Candido Jacuzzi as the inventor. However, after Jacuzzi was bought out in the late 1970s by Kiddie, they hired Roy Jacuzzi, who quickly began to falsify reports that he invented the Jacuzzi. During this time, the Jacuzzi company website's history was modified, changed and Roy Jacuzzi started to be viewed as the inventor. After 30 years, and with a new President in charge, the original patent was certified to Jacuzzi Corporation in Chino, CA. Candido Jacuzzi Candido Enzo Jacuzzi (24 February 1903 – 7 October 1986) was an Italian immigrant to"
"Theophilus Van Kannel Theophilus Van Kannel (1841 – December 24, 1919) was an American inventor, known for inventing the revolving door, patented on August 7, 1888. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Van Kannel, who was recognized for his invention with the John Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute in 1889, founded the ""Van Kannel Revolving Door Company"", which eventually was bought out by the International Steel Company in 1907. International Steel Company is the parent company of International Revolving Door Company. He invented and owned Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1907."
"Henry Maar Henry J. Maar (1921–1992), known as ""The Sultan of Balloons"", was one of the pioneers in balloon twisting. He appeared for over a decade on episodes of the long running Bozo's Circus. While the origins of balloon twisting is impossible to prove, Emmy Award winning producer/director Joseph Maar has provided evidence that his father, Henry, may be the founder of balloon twisting. Larry Moss calls Joseph Maar's evidence ""compelling"" but warns that if Joseph Maar is correct then the history of balloon twisting would have to be rewritten. For example, the 1975 book by ""Jolly the Clown"" Petri"
"Ray Harryhausen Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-born British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as ""Dynamation"". His most memorable works include: working with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien on the animation for ""Mighty Joe Young"" (1949), which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; his first color film, ""The 7th Voyage of Sinbad"" (1958); and ""Jason and the Argonauts"" (1963), which featured a famous sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was ""Clash of the Titans"" (1981), after"
"1911 he was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on ""Signalling to a Distance"" and ""Modern Electricity"" respectively. William Duddell William Du Bois Duddell (1 July 1872, Kensington, London – 4 November 1917, Wandsworth, London) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. His inventions include the moving coil oscillograph, as well as the thermo-ammeter and thermo-galvanometer. Duddell was born William Du Bois to Frances Kate Du Bois, who married George Duddell in 1881. At the age of four he constructed an automaton by combining a toy mouse with clockwork. Duddell was privately educated in England and France and"
"Momento The Guru In You The One Plan The Yogi Code Cameron Alborzian Yogi Cameron Alborzian (born 26 February 1967) is a British-Iranian yoga and Ayurveda therapist and former fashion model. After a successful career as male model in the fashion industry as the face of labels such as Guess, Levi's and Versace as well as a starring role in Madonna's ""Express Yourself"" video, he shifted his focus to work with people as an Ayurveda and yoga therapist. ""The Guru in You"", his first book published in America, was released by HarperCollins in January 2011. Alborzian was born in Tehran,"
"Johann Zahn Johann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of ""Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium"" (Würzburg, 1685). This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. As a student of light, Zahn is considered the most prolific writer and illustrator of the camera obscura. Zahn was a canon of the Premonstratensian monastery of Oberzell near Würzburg (see ). The first camera that was small and portable"
"Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber. However, the Mesoamericans used a more primitive stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC. Goodyear's discovery of the vulcanization process followed five years of searching for a more stable rubber and stumbling upon the effectiveness of heating after Thomas"
"William Duddell William Du Bois Duddell (1 July 1872, Kensington, London – 4 November 1917, Wandsworth, London) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. His inventions include the moving coil oscillograph, as well as the thermo-ammeter and thermo-galvanometer. Duddell was born William Du Bois to Frances Kate Du Bois, who married George Duddell in 1881. At the age of four he constructed an automaton by combining a toy mouse with clockwork. Duddell was privately educated in England and France and rose quickly through the prestigious City & Guilds Schools via scholarships. He died at the age of 45. Prior to"
"honors principal inventors, innovators, and developers whose contributions resulted in a significant change to the nature of the rubber industry. The Goodyear welt, a technique in shoemaking, was named after and in honor of its inventor, Charles' son; Charles Goodyear Jr. Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber. However, the Mesoamericans"
"Selvarajan Yesudian Selvarajan Yesudian or Selva Raja Yesudian (February 25, 1916, in Madras – October 26, 1998, in Zürich) was a yoga teacher and author. He is in particular known for a book he co-authored with Elisabeth Haich: ""Sport és Jóga"" - Budapest 1941, ""Sport und Yoga"" 1949, in English-speaking countries released as ""Yoga and Health"". Selvarajan Yesudian arrived in Hungary from India in 1937 and founded Europe's first yoga school in Budapest with Elisabeth Haich (in Hungarian: Haich Erzsébet) in 1941. After World War II in 1948 they had to close their school, when the communist regime came to"
"Cameron Alborzian Yogi Cameron Alborzian (born 26 February 1967) is a British-Iranian yoga and Ayurveda therapist and former fashion model. After a successful career as male model in the fashion industry as the face of labels such as Guess, Levi's and Versace as well as a starring role in Madonna's ""Express Yourself"" video, he shifted his focus to work with people as an Ayurveda and yoga therapist. ""The Guru in You"", his first book published in America, was released by HarperCollins in January 2011. Alborzian was born in Tehran, Iran to an English mother and Iranian father. In late 1978,"
"sclerotherapy and the treatment of varicose veins and other varices. Charles Pravaz Charles Gabriel Pravaz (24 March 1791 – 24 June 1853) was a French orthopedic surgeon and inventor of the hypodermic syringe. While the concept dated to Galen, the modern syringe is thought to have originated in 15th-century Italy, although it took several centuries for the device to be developed. In 1657, experiments were conducted on syringe-like devices by Englishmen Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle, while French physician Dominique Anel created the modern pump syringe as a device to clean wounds using suction. In all these cases, it was"
"skirts for yaw; twisting the right hand counterclockwise increases throttle. Jetpack Aviation was started by Australian businessman David Mayman with the technical knowhow coming from Nelson Tyler, prolific inventor of helicopter-mounted camera stabilizers and one of the engineers that worked on the Bell Rocketbelt that was used in the 1984 Olympics. Flyboard Air, invented by Franky Zapata, allows flight up to and has a top speed of . It also has 10 minutes autonomy. See full article Daedalus Flight Pack This particular innovation saw two jets attached to the back of an exoskeleton, worn by the operator. At the same"
"Yoshiyuki Sankai Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic, the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne; and professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba. Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba. Sankai is professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba. He is also visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US. Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) powered exoskeleton. Sankai lives"
"Wally Jay Wally Jay (June 16, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American martial artist who primarily studied and taught jujutsu and judo. He was the founder of the Gendai Budo martial art Small Circle JuJitsu. Jay was born in Hawaii of Chinese descent. At age 11, he began to study boxing under a community program. In 1940, he studied Danzan Ryu jujutsu under Juan Gomez and learned judo under the former Hawaiian Champion, Ken Kawachi. Jay and his wife Bernice were awarded a Certificate of Mastery by Seishiro Okazaki, the founder of Danzan Ryu jujutsu, on February 22,"
"Loránd Eötvös Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény ( or ""Loránd Eötvös,"" ; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum. Eötvös Loránd University, the Loránd Eötvös Mathematics Competition, and the Eötvös crater on the moon are named after him. Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, Eötvös was the son of the Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (1813–1871), a well-known poet, writer, and liberal politician,"
"Joseph Glidden Joseph Glidden (January 18, 1813 – October 9, 1906) was an American businessman. He was the inventor of the modern barbed wire. Glidden was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire of English descent. His family later moved to Clarendon, New York. In 1843, he moved to Illinois with his wife. She and their two sons died after the move, and Glidden married Lucinda Warne in 1851. He created barbed wire by using a coffee mill to create the barbs. Joseph placed the barbs along a wire and then twisted another wire around it to keep the barbs in place."