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Here at Flex Technologies, we are proud to provide silicone products online to help all kinds of industries run on a day to day basis. We are always humbled by the scope of machinery in the modern world. To commemorate how far we have come, we thought we would commemorate the inventors out there with some fun famous inventor facts.Live by your workWe have all heard of Vaseline, but have you ever heard of its inventor? Robert Chesebrough invented petroleum jelly and patented in 1872, manufacturin …

Here at Flex Technologies, we sell silicone hoses and tubes online for machines for a huge range of industries, including aerospace, medical, marine, agriculture, automotive, and aviation. We think it truly is amazing all that machines can do nowadays, so we thought we would commemorate them with some fun simple machine facts.LeversLevers are one of the simple machines that we mentioned in Part 1. Their purpose is to work as force multipliers, which they do in three different ways (referred to a …

Here at Flex Technologies, we are proud to be on the cutting edge of silicone tube manufacturing and silicone hose manufacturing. Luckily, we are able to stand on the shoulders of giants with our innovations, making use of countless discoveries our ancestors made before us for more complicated, useful future innovations. To celebrate the history of scientific discovery that we draw upon with each new step towards progress, we would like to finish our 3 part series of the timeline of scientific i …