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Credit to the Bicycle
Safety bicycles created a new concept in transportation – the personal vehicle –which was a disruptive technology. It removed costs and complications of maintaining and harnessing horses or conforming to public transportation schedules, and was such a dramatic new form of freedom that Susan B. Anthony proclaimed that bicycling had done more to emancipate women than anything else.
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Three-dimensional printing is a rapid prototyping process that builds objects by slowly laying materials such as thermoset resins. Desktop 3-D printers are now relatively inexpensive, at under $10,000. Like other rapid prototyping processes, 3-D printing faces impediments to widespread business adoption. However, despite the drawbacks, some small entrepreneurial companies have based their business plans on 3-D customized printing for the consumer market.
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Kent Bachmann, director of design and engineering for Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, explains the future of designing roller coasters and the sheer thrill of a job which requires a part of you to never grow up.
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