Ford Motor Company Was Founded, on this Day, 107 Years Ago

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford, and incorporated in June 16, 1903. Ford now encompasses many brands, including Lincoln and Mercury of the U.S. and Volvo of Sweden.

Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. Henry Ford's methods came to be known around the world as Fordism by 1914.

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Science Fair Project Information
Title: Explore Automotive Seat Design
Subject: Automotive engineering
Grade level: High School - Grades 10-12
Academic Level: Ordinary
Project Type: Descriptive
Cost: Low
Awards: 2nd place, Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair (2005)
Affiliation: Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair (VSF)
Year: 2005
Description: The main goal of this project is to study the factors that cause seating discomfort, and what health hazards sitting in a car imposes.
Link: http://www.odec.ca/projects/2005/fung5b0/public_html/

2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup - Begins

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is the 19th and current FIFA World Cup, the premier international association football tournament. It is being held in South Africa, where it began on 11 June and is scheduled to conclude on 11 July 2010. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.

The FIFA World Cup, also called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.

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Science Fair Project Information
Title: Total Soccer: The Online Soccer Resource
Subject: Sports
Grade level: Elementary / Middle School, Grades 4-9
Academic Level: Ordinary
Project Type: Descriptive
Cost: Low
Affiliation: ThinkQuest
Year: 2001
Description: Main topics: how to play soccer; soccer history; soccer health, nutrition and injuries; soccer today.
Link: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0127282/

Dennis Gabor, Inventor of Holography, Was Born

Dennis Gabor (1900 - 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Science Fair Project Information
Title: The Effect of Different Isolation Tables and Developing Times on a Hologram's Range of Color.
Subject: Optics & Light
Grade level: Middle School Grades 7-9
Academic Level: Ordinary
Cost: Low
Affiliation: Selah Junior High School
Year: 2002
Description: The independent variables are the isolation tables and the developing times. The dependent variable is the range of color in each hologram, which is measured in nanometers.

Link: http://share3.esd105.wednet.edu/mcmillend/02SciProj/AshleyD/AshleyD.html