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Quick! Send a telegraph; it’s Loomis Day! Mahlon Loomis was a dentist who introduced wireless telegraphy in 1868. He experimented with kites, sending signals through the atmosphere. He also invented artificial teeth! It’s also Water A Flower Day. Don’t let all your beautiful new flowers dehydrate now that the weather is heating up!
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Hjalti Hardarson, an inventor from Iceland, has invented a drone that looks and flies like a bird! He calls it Flygildi, or the Silent Flyer. The remote controlled robot uses flapping wings instead of rotors. He is still teaching the drone to fly like a bird, but radars are already unable to detect the difference!
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Apparently common sense is not enough to keep cars from driving or parking on sidewalks, so British inventor Yannick Read created the Catclaw. The device pops a metal spike out, to slash the tires of a car or truck that rolls over it. Lighter objects like people or bikes will not activate it. That should keep pedestrians safe!
Gino Tubaro is a 21 year-old inventor in Argentina. He developed a way to use a 3D printer to make low-cost prosthetic hands for children without limbs. Kids from all over the world have received new superhero-themed hands! Anyone with a 3D printer can help through the Atomic Lab website.
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