Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria, and water makes it useful for food packaging. Cellophane is highly permeable to water vapour, but may be coated with nitrocellulose lacquer to prevent this.
invented by Robert Durrer
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz-Donawitz…
invented by Douglas Engelbart
A computer mouse (plural mice, sometimes mouses)[nb 1] is a hand-held pointing…
invented by Christopher Cockerell
A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious…
invented by Tim Berners-Lee
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system…
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