RIR
What is a Risk Identification Report?
The "Father" of the atomic bomb, head of the Los Alamos Laboratory during WWII.
Who is Julius Robert Oppenheimer?
Chuck Yeager blasted through this at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.
What is the sound barrier?
The numbers on opposite sides of standard dice add up to this.
What is seven?
The unit of shear strain.
What is unitless?
SETC
What is Schlumberger Eureka Technical Careers?
No one has received more U.S. patents than this person.
Who is Thomas Edison? (1,093)
This product was originally made from excess sawdust from Ford Model T production.
What are Kingsford charcoal briquets? (Today ~1 Million tons of wood scraps are recycled annually)
First number to contain the letter 'a'.
What is "one thousand"?
"Energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed", states this law.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
BTU
What is the British Thermal Unit?
On on January 12, 1926, James S. Abercrombie and this man, patented the first successful Blowout Preventer.
Who was Harry S. Cameron?
The decade that Cooper Industries moved it's headquarters to Houston, Texas?
What was the 1960s (1967)?
The first prime number.
What is 2?
A quantity used to describe resistance to torsional deformation.
What is the second polar moment of area (or the polar moment of inertia)?
HCTC
Harry Cameron Technology Center
Developed the theory of radioactivity, coined the term radioactivity, first person to win the nobel prize twice, and in 1934 died of complications from exposure to radioactive elements.
Who is Marie Curie?
State where Charles and Elias Cooper started their first foundry.
What is Ohio (Mt. Vernon 1833)?
This number's roman numeral expression is CMXCIX.
What is 999.
The direction of the Earth's rotation.
What is Eastward (Prograde Motion)?
HARC
What is Hazard Analysis and Risk Control?
She discovered liquid crystalline polymers, which resulted in the product Kevlar.
Who was Stephanie Louise Kwolek?
In 1989 Cooper merged with Cameron Iron Works to form this.
What is Cooper Oil Tool?
"epi*i+1" is equal to this integer.
What is zero?
The birth country of Richard von Mises?
Austria-Hungry (1883-1953)