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Category: Inventions, Music, 1900s
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 10, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Chindogu, Patents, Music, 1920s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 06, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Inventions, Patents, Technology, Twenty-first Century
The "Soybean Car" was actually a plastic-bodied car unveiled by Henry Ford on August 13, 1941 at Dearborn Days, an annual community festival. The frame, made of tubular steel, had 14 plastic panels attached to it. The car weighed 2000 lbs., 1000 lbs. lighter than a steel car. The exact ingredients of the plastic panels are unknown because no record of the formula exists today. One article claims that they were made from a chemical formula that, among many other ingredients, included soybeans, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie; while the man who was instrumental in creating the car, Lowell E. Overly, claims it was "…soybean fiber in a phenolic resin with formaldehyde used in the impregnation"
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 04, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1940s, Cars
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 26, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 26, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Diseases, Domestic, Hygiene, Inventions, Patents, 1960s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 15, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, Inventions, Patents, Technology, 1960s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 02, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Inventions, Patents, 1930s, Feet
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 19, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, 1930s, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 17, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Sleep and Dreams, Twenty-first Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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