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Well, you know, I only have 15 minutes and I have to deal with your mess.Fasten your seat belts.
And I welcome Colomban to come on board.So fasten your seat belt, because you're going to hear science now.So stay calm. OK.
means pretty much everybody here, that works out to, what, about 200 years a minute, something like that.So fasten your seat belts if you got any seat belts.We're going to go for a very rapid historical journey into a subject which I think has a great deal of relevance
What's your relationship with your lover and your child?is fastened in something like Christianity or a pseudo-religious tradition of philosophy that those questions of character--
"A pull and its done!" said their ads, but that was a lie.Judson's fastener design was a mess.It jammed constantly. And because it was delicate and made from rust prone steel, it actually had to be removed from the garment
But even with this flaw, Sundback's employers thought this patent was a gold mine.So the Universal Fastener Company decided to launch the product under their new name, 'The Hookless Hooker'.They abandoned that name pretty quickly and decided to call it 'The Hookless Fastener' instead.
They abandoned that name pretty quickly and decided to call it 'The Hookless Fastener' instead.This new fastener was a successful product, but not a mainstream one.Its first applications were pretty niche.
as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States.Lot of fastening breakthroughs in the field.
I'll stick around for Q&A and be here afterwards to sign books.She's fastening her shoes that she had in Rio.
There doesn't seem to have been any culture in the entire history of the world that hasn't invented some form of knotting, because it'sthe first system for fastening things.So fishing nets, making baskets, tying things to your clothing all involve knots.
same-sex marriage." No.The sense of being fastened to the past and wanting to please your parents and not wanting to commit what, I'll harken back to a great existentialist who is a nihilist, Jean-PaulSartre, not wanting to commit bad faith. That is, not wanting to do something that goes against your own authenticity is, I think, a battle. It's a battle again of free will
These got the job done, but they all shared the same flaw.If you had a series of these fasteners on a piece of clothing, well, you have to close them one by one.Most people were satisfied with the state of affairs, but one man, American engineer, Whitcomb Judson, thought the world deserved something better.
And that daughter came into the eye of Gideon Sundback, and he was completely smitten.So he ends up working for the fastener manufacturer so that he can cozy up to that daughter and they marry.- For the next few years, Sundback made minor improvements to Judson's hook and eye design, but none were ever enough to make the product
- When they got a hold of the device, they were convinced that, yes, this will give us a leg up on our competitor.We will introduce this automatic fastener, but we need a name for it.- Then the company's president had an idea.
So again, we have evidence on this.it's a more flexible fastening technology.
And then you can provide a product with a very high benefit-to-cost ratio.Favorite example here is a company called Fastenal here in the US.If you have one bolt on your assembly line that goes down, and then you have a whole bunch of unionized guys standing
had to sew to one-sixty-fourth of an inch tolerance 21 layers of thin, gossamer thin fabric, each slightly larger to the next, it was like a giant Russian doll, all withoutthe aids of any pins or fasteners that could potentially puncture the suit if they were left in this massive assemblage. They did it on Singer sewing machines. The only modificationwas one of them was given a very long arm as you can see to allow the whole suit to be moved around underneath it and sewn together.
What I really found in looking at the research on sleep over the last few years is that if there is, to my mind,if there's a sort of silver bullet that we could fasten on to improve the lives of children at school and academic achievement it would be sleep.And if you think about it from a kind of policy perspective, if we had policies that actually worked to encourage sleep
Yes. What the heck does that even mean?That would be a very difficult thing to fasten.Yeah. I feel like that is my most common tweet.
Moreover, if a single hook and eye were out of place, the whole fastener became unstable, so simply bend over and the whole thing could pop open.Naturally, the Universal Fastener Company had very few repeat customers, and they fell into debt.But in 1906, a new engineer joined the team, 25-year-old Gideon Sundback, who had just moved to the US from Sweden.
- No, no. Oh, definitely not there.- By the 1800s, clothes were typically fastened using laces, buttons, brooches, and hooks and eyes.These got the job done, but they all shared the same flaw.
A few wealthy investors actually believed it.So with their backing, the Universal Fastener Company was born.A decade later, the company managed to carve out a small niche, primarily selling its fasteners for women's skirts.
So the Universal Fastener Company decided to launch the product under their new name, 'The Hookless Hooker'.They abandoned that name pretty quickly and decided to call it 'The Hookless Fastener' instead.This new fastener was a successful product, but not a mainstream one.
Soon, consumers wanted the zipper on everything.By the 1930s, the Universal Fastener Company became very, very successful.They got a new name, too: Talon, since their fasteners had a secure grip, it was kind of like the talons of an eagle.
So in the little gaps in between when it was possible, then yes, I was out there.I was lucky to visit some ships to look at some of the nails and fasteners they have in shipping.So I was able to go to a few museums.
if you pull it apart, how much shear it can take, so if it gets a sideways force like that.So I had a lot of very theoretical knowledge about steel and fasteners.But going into the forge was actually a really sensory experience.
Normally, we have a button fastener, but this week it's magnetized.
device, right? And they fasten it on.
and 2008 statistic. If you are a male, fasten your seatbelts.
Most of his patents had never gotten much traction, but he was a great salesman.In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, he presented this fastening device as the next big thing, claiming that in no time at allthis would replace buttons and laces, and not just on shoes, but on all sorts of garments.
But there was a problem, even though Sundback had a new design and a patent, manufacturing a zipper like this in the 1910swas very impractical. Each of the tiny teeth needed to be precisely shaped for the fastener to work, but at the time,there were simply no tools around that could do this reliably.
So, B.F. Goodrich came out in the early 1920s with their zipper boots.- The boots were such a hit that the name zipper transcended the shoe and became the name for the fastener itself.Soon, consumers wanted the zipper on everything.
By the 1930s, the Universal Fastener Company became very, very successful.They got a new name, too: Talon, since their fasteners had a secure grip, it was kind of like the talons of an eagle.Talon's new zippers were way sturdier than Judson's hook and eye design, because their parts were way simpler, and they were also made out of rust resistant nickel alloy
It allows buildings to be deconstructed at any stage of their life because there aren't any permanent binders or fasteners.
And he said, I bet I could make a fastener out of that.
And what I found was that not just that I didn't know this stuff it was I didn't even have the ability to learn it; I didn't have the basic facts to fasten other facts to.
So with their backing, the Universal Fastener Company was born.A decade later, the company managed to carve out a small niche, primarily selling its fasteners for women's skirts."A pull and its done!" said their ads, but that was a lie.
So literally unsewn from your skirt.Moreover, if a single hook and eye were out of place, the whole fastener became unstable, so simply bend over and the whole thing could pop open.Naturally, the Universal Fastener Company had very few repeat customers, and they fell into debt.
Well, Talon pretty much ruled the zipper market until the 1930s, but in 1934, Sundback's original patent expired, so the playing field was wide open to competitors.That same year, Japanese businessman, Tadao Yoshida, founded a new fastener company, the Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation, or YKK.It began as a single workshop in Tokyo where each zipper was made by hand.
and he proved indispensable. But he has this reputation as a butcher, Grant the Butcher. That's something that former Confederates and some Democrats in the North fastened on him. His
So a long time ago now.Yeah, coming to the book, you structured the book into seven chapters about inventions or classes of inventions, for example, the nail and other fasteners, the wheel,springs, and so on.
You don't break any fibers when you take apart a cotton thread like that, because they weren't fastened to each other in the first place.
DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN: It was some geek out there in the back of the cave chipping away at a rock and figured out how to get it fastened to a stick
at a rate of about fifteen miles an hour. At 6:30, one hour and a half from the time of starting, many eyes were yet fastened upon the balloon, anxious, perhaps, about the descent,
literal about the title of the book, but if you look around, I think people naturally kind of fastened on to that when he put her in the Cabinet. I don't think he really thought
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