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NASA inventions that rock our everyday world
Cordless power tools
Black and Decker invented a portable drill with the intention of extracting core samples from below the lunar surface during the original Apollo missions to the moon between 1963 and 1972. Gadgets such as the handheld vacuum cleaner quickly followed to the mass market.
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