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Andre Cassagnes: 7 Facts About the Etch A Sketch and Its Inventor

Posted on 02/3/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyKids today have iPads and Xbox game consoles, but a lot of Baby Boomers had a childhood gadget that we loved just as much, and it didn’t even require batteries. The Etch A Sketch first appeared in toy stores in 1960 and became an immediate must-have in kids’ letters to Santa. In the half-century since then, Ohio Art has sold more than 100 million of the classic toys, and children (even some adults) are still twisting the dials on the …

Stephen Michelson: An Entrepreneur Who Became an Anti-Hunger Innovator

Posted on 11/19/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyOne thing that’s remarkable about Stephen A. Michelson is that he not only had multiple careers, but they were all startlingly different from one another. As a young man, he was such a good baseball player that the New York Yankees offered him a contract to play in their farm system. He went on to become a medical-device entrepreneur who marketed innovative Velcro-attached splints and developed an electrical nerve stimulation device that eventually was licensed by Dow Corning Wright Corp. …

Stanford Ovshinsky: 5 Facts About ‘The Edison of Our Age’

Posted on 10/22/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyIt’s a safe bet that unless you’re a scientist or an engineer, you’ve probably never heard of Stanford Ovshinsky. And that’s a shame, because his inventions made possible a lot of the electronic gadgetry that our 21st-century high-tech world has become so dependent on. The quirky, self-taught inventor, who died on Oct. 17 in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., at age 89, was once labeled the “Edison of our age” by The Economist magazine, and for good reason. Ovshinksy held almost 700 patents, …