Emma Crawford Coffin Race App
When we were new residents of Manitou Springs, we were excited about all the weird and wonderful festivals that happen throughout the year. The Emma Crawford Coffin Race is one of them. About 60–70 teams race down Manitou Avenue in heats of two. Costumes and creative coffins are more important than speed at this race. […]
LED 50 Years
In October of 2012, the University of Illinois celebrated the 50th anniversary of Nick Holonyak’s invention of the LED. Illinois alumnus Nick Holonyak Jr. demonstrated the first practical, visible spectrum light-emitting diode (LED) at the GE Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory in Syracuse, New York on October 9, 1962. His design is the prototype for all high-brightness […]