Due to a request from the Raleigh News & Observer (N&O), and in line with North Carolinaâs State Personnel Law, UNC Health Care will share an updated salary database with the N&O in mid-February. We do not know when the N&O will publish this information.
(Accessed March 2, 2011). Shortly after John Hetrick had witnessed an automobile accident he received a patent in 1953 for a âsafety cushion assembly for automotive vehicles.â His U.S. Patent No. 2,649,311 was the first prototype for airbags. 5.
Polythene's story: The accidental birth of plastic bags. We can thank a chance discovery by a German scientist for the carriers that have become the scourge of modern life. It was at the end of the 19th century when a German scientist, Hans von Pechmann, discovered a waxy residue at the bottom of his test tube.