Bringing you the news for 50 years.* In high schools they teach the history of the Industrial Revolution--the invention INVENTION. A contrivance; a discovery. It is in this sense this word is used in the patent laws of the United States. 17 Pet. 228; S. C. 1 How. U. S. 202. It signifies not something which has been found ready made, but something which, in consequence of art or accident, has been formed; of the steam engine, the Spinning Jenny spinning jenny Early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. The hand-powered spinning jenny was patented by James Hargreaves in 1770. The development of the spinning wheel into the spinning jenny was a significant factor in the industrialization of the textile , water-powered looms, and so forth. Some day, those history courses will include two other industrial revolutions--those of synthetic materials and computers in the 20th and 21st centuries. In researching our 50th Anniversary issue, we learned how much of the history of plastics has yet to be told in a comprehensive way. We had to piece much of it together from the pages of PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY. And where better to look than in a magazine devoted to reporting and explaining new developments in technology for processing plastics? This month, we uncover the origins of the 50 most important technical developments in plastics since we started publishing in 1955. Next month, we'll we'll Contraction of we will. we'll we will or we shall we'll will ~shall profile some processors that have been around that long and tell how their world has changed. In December December: see month. , we'll gaze gaze (gaz) 1. to look steadily in one direction. 2. the act of looking steadily at something. conjugate gaze into a crystal ball for glimpses of what may be the most important innovations of the next 50 years. |
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