This Day In History
January 18, 1733: The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston.
January 18, 1778: Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
January 18, 1782: Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire.
January 18, 1788: The First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia's Botany Bay.
January 18, 1912: The ill-fated Scott expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover Amundsen had been there first.
January 18, 1943: The Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken.
January 18, 1993: All 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
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AFI'S 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME
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TOP 10 QUOTES |
MOVIE |
YEAR |
1 |
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. |
1939 |
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2 |
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. |
1972 |
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3 |
You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. |
1954 |
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4 |
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. |
1939 |
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5 |
Here's looking at you, kid. |
1942 |
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6 |
Go ahead, make my day. |
1983 |
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7 |
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. |
1950 |
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8 |
May the Force be with you. |
1977 |
|
9 |
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. |
1950 |
|
10 |
You talking to me? |
1976 |
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If The Moon Were Only One Pixel

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Take A Look Inside A Quantum Computer

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World's Fastest Truck - Quarter Mile In Less Than 7 seconds

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Lego Car Powered By Air

Here Is The Timeline For Our Future

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Watch Non-Newtonian Liquid In Slow Motion

Cubli, The Robotic Cube That Can Move Itself

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Watch A Boeing 777 Jet Being Assembled

Ok Go Video Featuring a Rube Goldberg Machine

Amazon Packages Delivered To Your Home In 30 Minutes?

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This Is How A Six Axis Robot Works

The Six Legged RHex Robot

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a robot that can flip it self over like a gymnast.
Cold Spray Technology From GE

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Watch These Synched Gears Mesh Together At 4500 RPM

Solar Powered Flying Bird

This solar powered bird was created by the University of Maryland robotics lab. Read the full story at IEEE Spectrum
Joebot Makes Your Morning Coffee

Watch Out For The WildCat

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How Does a Gas Pump Know When To Stop?

PriorityPal Case Palletizer At Pack Expo

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Fear The Tradinno!

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Check Out The Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine

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Robot Soccer

Virginia Tech's Dr. Dennis Hong created a completely autonomous robot soccer game with each robot capable of making its own decisions.
The Personal Jetpack

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Watch an Octopus Blend In To Its Surroundings

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How paper Towels Are Made

This video shows the process of how paper towels are made.
3D Printed Robot Goes Anywhere

Researchers from UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab have created a working 3D printed robot that has the capability to go just about anywhere.
Glassified Coming Soon To Rulers Near You.

Three students at MIT have created an OLED screen that fits onto a ruler and is hooked up to a Wacom digitizer connected to a computer. The computer can detect and interpret hand drawn lines and provide feedback on the OLED screen.
Watch a Mechanical Computer Help Engineering Students Back in 1948

This is a short film about a differential analyzer UCLA used in 1948 that was played before Paramount Pictures movies.
ATLAS Robot Is Very Human Like

Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has released a humanoid robot called ATLAS. This six-foot-two, 330 pound robot is capable of natural human movements.
Futuristic Buses From The 20's, 30's and 40's

GM built this cool looking bus and called it Futurliners in the 1940s, designed by Harley Earl. The buses were made to showcase modern innovations of its time like microwave ovens and television sets. Read the full story at I09.
Active Aerodynamics In Action On A Formula SAE Racecar

Our own Madhu Valikkodath’s old Formula SAE team from the University of Texas Arlington created this race car for the 2013 racing season. The car uses active aerodynamics to aid in the cornering ability of the car. With a limited budget and a one year development constraint, the students built this racecar weighing in at about 400 lbs, and running on a single-cylinder 450cc motorcycle engine.
Here Is A Working V8 Engine Built Out Of Legos

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Careless Baggage Handler Tosses Boxes on Conveyor Belt

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What Is Underneath All Of That Ice In Antarctica

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Here are 10 GIFs Showing Various Car Parts In Action

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An Automated Paper Airplane Folding Machine Made From Legos

Here is a fully automated paper plane folding machine made from Legos.
Water Turns Into Instant Ice

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This Is The World's Smallest Flying Robot

Engineers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have been developing an insect sized flying robot for the past 12 years. Until now the Harvard researchers haven’t been able to control the robots flight. By using piezoelectric actuators and a delicate control system, the fly-sized robot can be easily controlled.
Look What Happens To A Mercury Bubble When It Is Exposed To Audio Frequnecy

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature, so when sound is produced the results are quite fascinating.
Here Is Today In Relation To The Beginning Of Time

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How Does The CERN Super Collider Actually Work?

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See How A Differential Gear Works

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There Was A Wing Walker Right Outside Our Building

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How Big Is The Universe?

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The Next Generation Of Telescopes

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See Some Cool Quantum Leviation

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