The inventor of the "Cats Eyes", got the idea when his car headlights reflected in the eyes of an oncoming cat
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old joke!\n\ni think he would have run over the cat and the world would be a different place... until the next guy saw a cat face on and invented it himself
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Then cat would be god spelled backwards.
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Cat pupils close from the sides to centre in a vertical line... \nHuman pupils stretch and opens in a circle...
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The raccoon was cursed that why he died! The parrot intentionally broke the mirror so you would not change your hair style! Any demon or curse would be afraid of that . The black cat was just being cautious because he was on his 9th life!
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Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with introducing the general principle of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D, where he described a method of directly altering corneal power by submerging the eye in a bowl of water. \nRené Descartes proposed another idea in 1636, in which a glass-tube filled with liquid is placed in direct contact with the cornea. The protruding end was to be composed of clear glass, shaped to correct vision; however the idea was unworkable, since it would make blinking impossible.\n\nIn 1801, while conducting experiments concerning the mechanisms of accommodation, scientist Thomas Young constructed a liquid-filled "eyecup" which could be considered a predecessor to the contact lens. On the eyecup's base, Young fitted a microscope eyepiece. However, like da Vinci's, Young's device was not intended to correct refraction errors.\n\nSir John Herschel, in a footnote of the 1845 edition of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, posed two ideas for the visual correction: the first "a spherical capsule of glass filled with animal jelly", and "a mould of the cornea" which could be impressed on "some sort of transparent medium". Though Herschel reportedly never tested these ideas, they were both later advanced by several independent inventors, seemingly unaware of Herschel's suggestion.\n\nIt was not until 1887 that the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick constructed and fitted the first successful contact lens. While working in Zürich, he described fabricating afocal scleral contact shells, which rested on the less sensitive rim of tissue around the cornea, and experimentally fitting them: initially on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. These lenses were made from heavy brown glass and were 18-21mm in diameter. Fick filled the empty space between cornea/callosity and glass with a grape sugar solution. He published his work, "Contactbrille", in the journal Archiv für Augenheilkunde in March 1888.\n\nFick's lens was large, unwieldy, and could only be worn for a few hours at a time. August Muller in Kiel, Germany, corrected his own severe myopia with a more convenient glass-blown scleral contact lens of his own manufacture in 1888.\n\nGlass-blown scleral lenses remained the only form of contact lens until the 1930s when polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA or Perspex/Plexiglas) was developed, allowing plastic scleral lenses to be manufactured for the first time. In 1936 an optometrist, Dr. William Feinbloom introduced plastic lenses, making them lighter and more convenient. These lenses were a combination, however, of both plastic and glass.\n\nIn the 1950s, the first 'corneal' lenses were developed--these were much smaller than the original scleral lenses, as they sat only on the cornea rather than across all of the visible ocular surface. PMMA corneal lenses became the first contact lenses to have mass appeal through the 1960s, as lens designs became more sophisticated with improving manufacturing (lathe) technology.
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Something he invented.
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It's like the saying curiousity killed the cat. It's good to look before you leap so you don't do something idiotic, and think about what your about to do first.
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Cat is invented by the one who invented us... So Now the big question is "Tricksy tricksy, if not completely stupid...? who invented us?"
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This is the way they reflect light.
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The driver cannot see the lighting of the lights on the road as teh car will be travelling at the same speed of light. The car will be on the same point of the road where the light is falling. Because the car will travel that distance along with light which is about to hit the road. let me explain. Let us assume that car is "c" lights are "l" and the lighting is "r". So their positions will be some thing like this\n     c   lr\nAs lights will be before car.\nNow lights have released the light and the light is hits the ground and at teh same time car reaches that point.\n           cr   lr1\nr1 is the light that is released at that point of instant.\nI had explained a lot and in that effort I had missed the point that this cannot be explained like this. LOL.
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did you know that the red dot on 7 up comes from the inventor.  he had a red eye
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The modern version of the traffic light was invented and patented by Garrett Augustus Morgan in 1923.  Morgan, the son of slaves, was born in Kentucky and later moved to Cleveland, where he became a well-respected business man and ran a sewing machine repair shop.  After witnessing one of the frequent accidents that occurred before the days of traffic signals, he decided to do something to help.\n\nThe first ever "traffic light" was a gas lamp that was installed in London in 1868--before cars were invented; it was used for horse carriages.
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I thought I did just a few minutes ago, but it was the cat jumping from the windowsill to my bookshelf which is over 5 feet tall. HOw the heck did he do that???????????? He's looking at me now  like I should be proud of him or something :P
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Cos it looked at him funny. duhhh :)\n\nNo but really, the actual answer is "Because he wanted to watch a car-tune!" Lol its not funny!
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The first automobile traffic light was invented around 1912 by Lester Farnsworth Wire, who was then head of the traffic division of the Salt Lake City Police Department. His two lamps, one red and one green, came from lights then in use on seagoing vessels and railroad signals where they meant stop and go as they do now.\n\nRed has often been the color chosen when the goal was to attract attention, since red, more than any other color, heightens nervous tension in people. Green, on the other hand, has a neutral effect on human emotions, so it was natural to use it to indicate an "okay to proceed" condition. When it was decided to add a caution lamp to the traffic light, yellow was chosen because, other than white, it was the color most distinguishable from red and green. White, of course, was not desired since it could be confused with the many other white lights—such as streetlights—that might be near the traffic light.
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THomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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Its made that way as an anti-glare feature.\n\nThere's a full mirror behind a partial mirror.  The two mirrors are a few degrees apart either can be used.  The dimmer one is for night driving to cut glare from headlights.