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The first, typical or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied.
What is a Prototype?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
The brothers who graduated from SCU went on to start a well known electronics store.
Who are the Fry brothers (David, John, and Randy)?
This manufacturing process first implemented for the Model T revolutionized product design and manufacturing.
What is the Assembly Line?
This company's Genius Bar is available to answer questions regarding their computer hardware, software, consumer electronics, and digital distribution.
What is Apple?
A person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
Who is an Entrepreneur?
At any node in an electrical circuit, the sum of the currents flowing into that node is equal to the sum of currents flowing out of that node.
What is Kirchoff's Current Law?
The building on campus that is named after a SCU alum, most famous for his sunspot theory of weather forecasting.
What is the Ricard Memorial Observatory (Jerome S. Ricard)?
This device transmits information by modulating signals with electromagnetic waves that have frequencies below that of visible light.
What is the Radio?
Started by Stanford University students as a search engine, this company has expanded to include cloud computing, operating systems, applications, and much more.
What is Google?
To produce or devise something for the first time through the use of imagination and experimentation.
What is Invent?
C, Java, Fortran, BASIC
What are Programming Languages?
He was the first to pilot a manned, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air machine.
Who is John Joseph Montgomery?
In 1957, one of these was implanted into a dog, keeping it alive for 90 minutes. 25 years later, one of these was used for the first time in a human, keeping the patient alive for 112 days.
What is the artificial heart?
This company's da Vinci robotic surgical systems has advanced minimally invasive care.
What is Intuitive?
To introduce or make a change to do something in a new way.
What is Innovate?
E=σ/ε
What is Hooke's Law?
A member of SCU's class of 1923 and was a major contributor to the University. During his lifetime, he endowed an engineering professorship, created numerous undergraduate scholarships, donated millions, and served on SCU's board of regents.
Who is Thomas J. Bannan?
This invention revolutionized literacy and made it possible to mass produce books.
What is the printing press?
This company made supercomputing widely accessible through their use of CPUs for parallel processing.
What is NVIDIA?
Protection of an invention granted, for a set period of time, to the inventor to have the sole rights to make, use, and sell an invention.
What is a Patent?
The process by which information from the gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product.
What is Gene Expression?
One of the largest action sports clothing companies which was founded by a SCU alumni and former physics professor.
What is Fox Racing (Geoff Fox)?
This invention was made possible by the development of protocols that allowed networks to communicate with each other.
What is the internet?
Founded in 2007 in Campbell, CA, this company has more than 1 million places for EV drivers to charge.
What is ChargePoint?