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| 11. "This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt - or fail to adapt - to the future". These are the opening lines for the introduction of which famous book? |
| 12. In Wall Street slang, what are Bo Dereks and James Bonds? |
| 13. IBM first coined this term in 1964 to describe a brand of typewriters. The MTST (Magnetic Tape "Selectric" Typewriter) boasted about this because it used magnetic tapes to store pages of text. What are we talking about? |
| 14. One Dr. John H. Dressauer, the research director of his company, convinced his company to buy Carlson's patent rights. Which company did Dr.Dressauer belong to? |
| 15. On October 22, 1938, Carlson and Kornei succeeded in producing the first-ever copy of this. For the experiment, Carlson inked the date and the word "Astoria" on a glass slide. Then, using his pocket handkerchief, he rubbed a sulphur-coated metal plate to give it a static charge. He attached the inked glass slide to the metal plate and exposed them under a flood lamp. When he dusted the plate with powder the inked inscription appeared. What first is being described here? |
| 16. About fifty years after John Loud's patent of 1888, an improved version was invented in Hungary by Ladislas and his brother, Georg. What invention? |
| 17. How do we better know the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company? |
| 18. The first great success for this invention came on an October morning in 1945 when a crowd of over 5000 people jammed the entrance of New York's Gimbels Department Store. The day before, Gimbels had taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times promoting the first sale of these in the United States. On the first day of sales, Gimbels sold out its entire lot of 10000 - at $12.50 each. What product are we talking about? |
| 19. When World War I ended, so did the cotton shortage, and Kimberly-Clark began looking for new ways to sell Cellucotton. What product did this finally result in? |
| 20. In the 1860s a gold miner named Alkali Ike had the habit of stuffing the Levis pants pockets with ore samples - so much so that the pockets would frequently rip open. Ike was constantly taking his Levis to his tailor, Jake Davis, to have them resewn. What invention did Jake Davis eventually come up with to solve the problem? |