Inventions

  • List of Ten Logo
    CU is full of innovators, who have changed the world in ways both big and small. Here are 10 inventions and discoveries made by CU baby直播app and alumni.
  • liquid nitrogen at concert
    October 1982. Los Angeles. Ghouls rise from a fog-fingered graveyard and join a zombified Michael Jackson in one of history鈥檚 most iconic bits of choreography in the watershed 鈥淭hriller鈥 video, a mini-horror flick built around the eponymous hit song.
  • Illustration of Dr. Evil as grocery checker
    Right after Theodore Maiman (EngrPhys鈥49) successfully developed the laser in 1960, newspapers reported that a Los Angeles scientist had invented a death ray.
  • Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign
    We all know that what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, thanks to the creative slogan penned by聽Jason Hoff聽(Jour鈥00) and a colleague.
  • Post-It Note
    In 1968 Spencer Silver (PhDA&S鈥66), a聽senior chemist at 3M鈥檚 Central Research聽Labs, developed a peculiar adhesive.聽Made out of tiny bubbles, it was strong聽enough to hold papers together but weak聽enough that they could be pulled apart.
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