October 1982. Los Angeles. Ghouls rise from a fog-fingered graveyard and join a zombified Michael Jackson in one of history鈥檚 most iconic bits of choreography in the watershed 鈥淭hriller鈥� video, a mini-horror flick built around the eponymous hit song.
Right after Theodore Maiman (EngrPhys鈥�49) successfully developed the laser in 1960, newspapers reported that a Los Angeles scientist had invented a death ray.
In 1968 Spencer Silver (PhDA&S鈥�66), a senior chemist at 3M鈥檚 Central Research Labs, developed a peculiar adhesive. Made out of tiny bubbles, it was strong enough to hold papers together but weak enough that they could be pulled apart.
