85 results for: Innovation and Invention
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Joe Kochanowski on his homemade bike at protest concerning the Burke-Gilman trail extension, Seattle, March 3, 1988
After the success of the initial stretch of the Burke-Gilman Trail along Lake Washington, walkers, joggers, and bikers pressed for a western extension. Burlington Northern had just sold property that included several vacated stretches of rail, and the city was planning to buy these. While the Montana-based purchasers said they would not block the trail, not everyone was convinced. Members…
ID Number:2000.107.029.17.04
Date:1988
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Cell Therapeutics technician at work in lab, October 6, 1992
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) incorporated in September 1991 as part of Seattle's biotech boom. Using the motto "Making Cancer More Treatable," James A. Bianco, Jack Singer, and George Todaro, who met working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, spearheaded the company's work to improve cancer treatment drugs. With headquarters next to the Olympic Sculpture Park on the Seattle waterfront, the company…
ID Number:2000.107.033.30.01
Date:1992
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Peggy Mainprice and Tuffy at Volunteer Park, Seattle, August 14, 1979
Influenced by the new city "scoop laws" of the late 1970s, Seattle accountant Peggy Mainprice (1918-19930 invented the Scoop-a-Poo, a collapsible metal rod with a stainless steel hoop at one end and a handle at the other. The device came equipped with a self-sealing biodegradable baggie for easy disposal.In this image Peggy and her dog, Tuffy, stroll through Volunteer Park…
ID Number:2000.107.050.17.01
Date:1979
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Steve Duzan and Michael Kranda of Immunex, February 15, 1991
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostin) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001 Immunex was…
ID Number:2000.107.053.02.03
Date:1991
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Mark Eppley of Traveling Software, December 21, 1990
Mark Eppley founded Traveling Software in Bothell in 1983 to create products to help people work remotely, mainly to move files between laptops and office desktops. Rebranded as LapLink.com in 1999, after its most notable product at the time, later software like PCmover would keep the company profitable and growing. As of 2019, the company is still in business as…
ID Number:2000.107.057.01.01
Date:1990
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Woman working on microcircuits at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, October 29, 1981
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.02
Date:1981
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Employee assembling a Fluke Manufacturing instrument at Beijing Radio Research Institute, Beijing, China, November 12, 1985
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.03
Date:1985
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Women working on inspection line at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, November 5, 1986
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.05
Date:1986
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Leigh Barnes working on inspection line at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, December 26, 1985
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.06
Date:1985
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Francis J. Gaudette and Mike Maples announcing shipment of Windows 3.1 at Sea-Tac Airport, March 18, 1992
In the early 1990s, Microsoft was engaged in fierce competition with IBM for dominance in the software market. The two companies had collaborated on the OS/2 operating system in the 1980s before Microsoft broke ties and focused on its own operating system, called Windows. Microsoft began shipping copies of Windows 3.1 in March 1992, about two weeks before IBM began…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.02
Date:1992