85 results for: Innovation and Invention
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Hans Dehmelt sitting in UW classroom, Seattle, October 12, 1989
In this image, University of Washington physics Professor Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922-2017) sits in a classroom on the Seattle campus after learning that he had been awarded a share of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for co-developing (with Wolfgang Paul) an elegant, precise technique to trap charged atomic particles so they could be studied and measured in near isolation.…
ID Number:2000.107.246.04.01
Date:1991
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City Light superintendent Gordon Vickery charging an electric car at a parking meter, Seattle, May 3, 1973
Gordon Vickery (1920-1996) was a firefighter and Superintendent of Seattle City Light. He began his career in the Seattle Fire Department in 1946, rising to the rank of Chief in 1963. Vickery hired more women and racial minorities in the department, and helped found the Medic One program to provide improved onsite medical care for heart attack patients. In 1972,…
ID Number:2000.107.19730503.3.13
Date:1973
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Woman wearing Virtual Vision Sport headset, December 18, 1992
In 1992, the Redmond-based company Virtual Vision, founded by local tech pioneer Gordon Kuenster, developed the Virtual Vision Sport eyeglasses. Borrowing from virtual reality technology, the lightweight device displayed what appeared to be a big-screen television picture to the wearer, by using a tiny LCD screen and mirror attached inside one of the eyepieces, with earbuds for sound at each…
ID Number:2000.107.19921218.1.09
Date:1992
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Joseph P. Balint Jr. holding Prosorba Column device at IMRE Corp., Seattle, March 22, 1993
The biotechnology company IMRE Corp. was formed in Seattle in 1981 as Immune Response Systems, Inc., by a group of scientific investigators from various institutions across the country. IMRE moved to San Diego in 1996 and changed its name to Cypress Bioscience. In the early 1980s, IMRE Corp. invented a device for filtering a person’s blood to strengthen the immune…
ID Number:2000.107.19930322.5.42
Date:1993
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Charlene Curtiss and Debbie Gilbert dancing, November 17, 1993
This image shows Charlene Curtiss (left) and Debbie Gilbert (right) dancing at Chinook Middle School. Curtiss and Gilbert were members of the Whistlestop Dance Company, which used dance to teach children and to advocate for people with disabilities. After her spine was injured in a gymnastics accident, Curtiss developed the field of wheelchair dance, establishing the Light Motion Dance Company…
ID Number:2000.107.19931117.1.25
Date:1993
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Bill Culliton charging electric car, Orcas Island, March 6, 1997
In 1991, Orcas Island was chosen as one of 13 sites in the US to participate in a Department of Energy study to see how electric vehicles (EVs) performed in real use. At the time, EVs were limited in speed and range, but neither was a concern with Orcas Island's small size and narrow roads. Several Orcas residents bought EVs…
ID Number:2000.107.19970306.22.19
Date:1997
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Drummer Alfonso Adinolfi playing electronic drum set, Kent, March 31, 1997
Drummer Alfonso (Al) Adinolfi started Alternative Percussion/Boom Theory in an old granary in Kent, WA. In 1991, he received his first patent for his new digital drums that he called “Spacemuffins.” Coming up with Spacemuffins took a lot of creativity and a large dose of venture capital. Adinolfi and his team developed a sound module based on the sensors used…
ID Number:2000.107.19970331.10.02
Date:1997
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Election voter using touch screen at Martha Lake school, Lynnwood, September 18, 2002
Various voting methods and machines have been used in U.S. elections, such as hand-counted paper, mechanical lever machines, punch-card machines, scanned paper ballots, and direct-recording electronic devices. Forays into electronic voting machines have been stymied by unfounded conspiracy theories about the safety of voting machines, and despite the use of electronic technology by election officials, the system continues to be…
ID Number:2000.107.20020917.CD02.04.001
Date:2002
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.002
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.003
Date:2003