Word: tar
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...parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
...always emerged. In the history of scientific and technological endeavor, there are few if any cases in which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic...
...They can't just tar the guidance department. That I'm not listening to," she adds...
When the 2000 NCAA Tournament rolls around this fall, the favorite should naturally be No. 4 North Carolina. Although the Tar Heels lost its top spot in the rankings due to a 2-1 loss to ACC rival Clemson, North Carolina has still won 15 of 18 national titles...
...wasn't that long ago, 1997 to be exact, that Harvard itself was in the national quarterfinals, and standing in the way of the Tar Heel dynasty...