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	Kremer prizes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Kremer prizes are a series of monitory awards, funded by Henry Kremer, that are given to pioneers of (additional info and facts about human-powered flight) human-powered flight.
		The first Kremer prize of £50,000 was won on August 23, 1977 by Dr. (additional info and facts about Paul MacCready) Paul MacCready Jr.
		The second Kremer prize of £100,000 was won on June 12, 1979, again by Paul MacCready, When Bryan Allen flew MacCready's (additional info and facts about Gossamer Albatross) Gossamer Albatross from England to France.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/kremer_prizes.htm (145 words)

	Kremer prizes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kremer prizes are a series of monetary awards, established in 1959 by the industrialist Henry Kremer, that are given to pioneers of human-powered flight.
		The first Kremer prize of £50,000 was won on August 23, 1977 by Dr. Paul MacCready Jr.
		The second Kremer prize of £100,000 was won on June 12, 1979, again by Paul MacCready, when Bryan Allen flew MacCready's Gossamer Albatross from England to France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kremer_prize (140 words)

	Feynman Grand Prize Page 1
		Funds for the $250,000 Feynman Grand Prize have been donated to Foresight Institute by individuals interested in advancing the progress of nanotechnology, and are being conservatively invested.
		It specified a prize of £20,000 (equivalent to about $2.5 million in today's funds) for the person who devised a reliable means for a ship captain to establish his longitude within half a degree of great circle (30 nautical miles at the equator).
		The motor prize was claimed in 1960 by an engineer who found a way to construct a very small motor using conventional mechanical techniques.
	www.foresight.org /GrandPrize.1.html (2048 words)

	Fortune.com - This Just In - And the Winner Is ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An "inducement prize," as the genre is known, is not to be confused with a retrospective prize, like the Nobel, which typically rewards either a lifetime of achievement or some great deed, either past or present, that the doer would have done anyway.
		Inducement prizes are those in which a benefactor spells out exactly what is to be accomplished and promises a wad of a cash to the first to do it.
		The X Prize, whose headquarters is on Spirit of St. Louis Boulevard in St. Louis, has attracted two dozen teams from seven countries, including an entry by Burt Rutan, who also built the first plane to fly around the world without refueling.
	www.methuselahmouse.org /files/news/cachednews/30/cachefile.htm (894 words)

	How prizes pushed progress - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		The prize is won by Henri Farman in 1908, giving French aviators a boost in their public-relations battle with the Wright brothers.
		The prize is won in 1919 by British Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown, flying a Vickers Vimy airplane for 16 hours from Newfoundland to Ireland.
		To encourage passenger space travel, the X Prize Foundation offers $10 million to the first team to develop a craft without government support that is capable of bringing the pilot plus two passengers (or equivalent ballast) to an altitude of at least 100 kilometers, then repeating the feat within two weeks.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /?id=5191763& (1318 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Concerning Federally Sponsored Inducement Prizes in Engineering and Science (1999)
		Inducement prize contests usually fall into one of two basic categories: best-entry contests, which reward the best solution within a given time period, and defined-objective contests, which may remain open until a specific goal is reached.
		Indeed, sponsoring a prize that is much larger than the expected cost of competing for it makes sense only if the sponsor believes that there are a large number of very different technical approaches that might work, and so wants to get a large number of contestants participating in the prize competition.
		The closer the objectives of an inducement prize contest lie to perceived market opportunities and the existing capabilities of would-be contestants, the lower the costs of competing for it will be, and the smaller the prize needs to be to attract competitors.
	www.nap.edu /books/NI000221/html/10.html (2054 words)

	Confessions of SS Men who were at Auschwitz
		Kremer mentions a special action of Sunday, 6 September at 8 o'clock in the evening, then on the evening of 9 September, then on the morning of 10 September, then in the night of the 23rd and on that of the 30th.
		On the date of 12 October 1942, Dr. Kremer had mentioned a special action concerning 1600 persons who had come from the Netherlands: in the margin next to that mention he had written the name of Hössler, who at that time was one of the SS men responsible for the camp at Birkenau.
		Kremer has not transformed an impression which was personal to him into an impression common to a whole human group.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v02/v02p103_Faurisson.html (9469 words)

	The Prometheus Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Structure of the Prize – The Prometheus Prize will be a periodically renewed suite of ten or more $250,000 prizes to be awarded to the first individual or research group to complete each of the critical milestones established by the prize committee.
		The Kremer Prize stimulated intense effort by a half-dozen research groups and grew to £50,000 before it was won in 1977 by Paul MacCreedy and his team from Cal Tech.
		The Prometheus Prize solves this by capturing the larger vision – the conquest of aging – with a suite of concrete, achievable, and realistic milestones.
	research.arc2.ucla.edu /pmts/Agingprize.htm (2696 words)

	UCLA Program on Medicine - Prometheus Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A corpus of $7,500,000[iv] would permanently endow these prizes, cover the foundation’s modest administrative requirements, and support an ongoing effort robust enough to generate the broad scientific involvement and popular prominence needed for the prizes to successfully catalyze progress towards clinical interventions to retard aging.
		Association with a prize most people will enthusiastically embrace and the media will regularly follow: As the number of milestone awards mounts, this prize will not only be the gauge of humanity’s progress toward transcending aging, it will be recognized as a key ingredient in that progress.
		Two typical prizes are the Sandoz Prize of $30,000 for fundamental contributions to biogerontology and the Ipsen Prize of $20,000 for contributions to human longevity.
	research.arc2.ucla.edu /pmts/agingprz.htm (3168 words)

	To Endow, Bequeath, or Award Prizes? \| Gongol.com
		Prizes encourage initiative and risk-taking by increasing the direct incentive for undertaking a challenge, which is an especially market-friendly way of achieving a goal.
		Economists are particularly enthusiastic about prizes, in some cases forecasting that they could deliver enormous gains in human welfare, and the National Academy of Engineering has called for the Federal government to use them as a policy instrument for the same reasons.
		A prize for developing a cancer vaccine may be more useful to society than a prize for global circumnavigation by balloon.
	gongol.com /research/economics/legacy (1455 words)

	Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test
		The prize committee specified that there be independent referees stationed in several locations: several in the rooms with the judges and confederates to answer questions concerning interpretation of the above rules, and one in the auditorium to serve as a sort of roving ombudsman.
		The prize at this first competition was a nominal $1500, although Dr. Loebner has reportedly earmarked $100,000 for the first computer program to pass the full Turing test at some later running of the competition.
		Such a ``conspiracy theory'' of the prize as a vast psychology experiment executed on unwitting and unconsenting adults is as unlikely as it is disturbing.
	www.eecs.harvard.edu /shieber/Biblio/Papers/loebner-rev-html/loebner-rev-html.html (6372 words)

	Feynman Grand Prize Page 1
		To win the newly announced Feynman Grand Prize, entrants must design and construct a functional nanometer-scale robotic arm with specified performance characteristics, and also must design and construct a functional nanometer-scale computing device capable of adding two 8-bit binary numbers.
		Foresight Institute is offering a $250,000 Feynman Grand Prize to the individual or group that first achieves two significant nanotechnology breakthroughs - design and construction of a functional nanometer-scale robotic arm, and design and construction of a functional 8-bit adder computing device.
		Lindbergh won the prize in a modified single-engine Ryan aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
	www.islandone.org /Foresight/GrandPrize.1.html (2404 words)

	hpag home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The competitions are open to entrants from all over the world, but to be eligible for a prize, the flight must be made within the United Kingdom under officially observed conditions.
		There are two Kremer Competitions at the present, one for a flight round a specified twenty six mile Marathon distance course, in a time of under one hour, one for a sporting aircraft.
		The prize of £50,000 will be awarded to the first entrant successfully demonstrating a Human Powered Aircraft in accordance with the rules of the competition.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/j_d_mcintyre/kremer.htm (677 words)

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		The prize required the winner to fly a man-powered vehicle in a figure-eight course around two pylons 1/2 mile apart.
		The prizes can be made quite small, yet still be effective; witness, for example, the $500 Society for Cryobiology's Crystal Award for best undergraduate or graduate research.
		Conversely, the prize can be designed to encourage explorative work by offering a prize for the best proposal to advance the state of the art for organ cryopreservation.
	keithlynch.net /cryonet/96/40.html (1404 words)

	The CATS Board
		Kremer was thrilled to award the prize in his lifetime, and established the second Kremer Prize, for crossing the English Channel in a human powered aircraft.
		The Kremer Prize rules list the prize conditions with sufficient clarity that there was no ambiguity about whether or not something was allowed.
		The prize is only $250,000, and I know of no government funded project that could win the prize without taking a loss on the operation.
	www.space-frontier.org /cgi-bin/BBS/CP1/read/1682 (1014 words)

	Inventing Modern America: Perseverance - Paul MacCready
		Daydreaming one day in 1976, he recalled that there was a cash prize for a successful human-powered flight: the Kremer Prize, with an award of £50,000.
		He remembers, "the Kremer Prize, in which I'd had no interest, was just about equal to my debt.
		There was another prize to be won: the Kremer Prize's sponsor put up £100,000 for the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel.
	web.mit.edu /invent/www/ima/maccready_bio.html (1023 words)

	Tidepool \| Features
		The first prize was for a human powered flying machine, the second was for human powered flight across the English Channel.
		Eighteen years after the prize was first offered, the MacCready-designed Gossamer Condor claimed the first Kremer price in 1977.
		MacCready won another Kremer prize a few years later for the Bionic Bat -- a human power aircraft in which the human generated power for a battery and the battery powered the plane.
	www.tidepool.org /original_content.cfm?articleid=47638 (2251 words)

	The History of Human-Powered Flight
		Similar prizes were offered in Italy and Russia, but the technology of the day was not up to the task, and the prizes went unclaimed.
		The first Kremer prize of $50,000 for a figure eight flight was claimed on 23rd August 1997 by Paul McReady, who designed and built the Gossamer Condor.
		McReady went on to claim the $100,000 Kremer prize for the first flight across the English Channel with the Gossamer Albatross.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /slade/nickhornby/flying/extra/flahoo.html (651 words)

	Gossamer Albatross
		The Gossamer Albatross II was involved in slow-speed flight tests at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California in the spring of 1980.
		Paul McCready was later awarded the most prestigious prize in American aviation, the Collier Trophy for his work in the record breaking project.
		The Gossamer Condor won the Kremer prize for the first controlled human-powered airplane flight in 1977.
	www.byrongliding.com /gossamer_albatross.htm (381 words)

	Making Snowmobiles Safe for Yellowstone
		Offered in 1959 at £5,000 by British industrialist Henry Kremer, it grew to £50,000 (worth $95,000 at the time) before it was claimed by Dr. Paul MacCready and his team in 1977.
		Here’s how the same could be done for clean snowmobiles: The vested interests could raise prize money and invite engineering students to meet the design criteria.
		The requirements would be a standard of cleanliness, quietness, and practicality currently unknown to the snowmobile industry.
	www.free-eco.org /articleDisplay.php?id=395 (738 words)

	Foresight Update 24 Page 1
		Foresight Institute is offering a $250,000 cash prize to the first individual or group to achieve specific major advances in molecular nanotechnology.
		More recently, the £50,000 ($95,000) Kremer prize led to the realization of humanity's age-old dream of human-powered flight.
		In recognition of pioneering work to synthesize complex three-dimensional structures built from DNA molecules, Foresight Institute awarded the 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology to Nadrian C.
	www.islandone.org /Foresight/Updates/Update24/Update24.1.html (1901 words)

	WHERE IDEAS COME FROM
		The Kremer prize was offered to the first man-powered flight that fulfilled certain rigid requirements.
		The Kremer prize, therefore, can be said to have created the demand that led to a technological breakthrough.
		On August 23, 1977, Paul MacCready, an aeronautical engineer from Pasadena California, and one of many contestants who responded to the challenge, was awarded the Kremer prize for creating the first successful human-powered aircraft.
	www.goines.net /Writing/where_ideas_come_from.html (3193 words)

	September 29 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		American particle physicist, corecipient with Val Logsdon Fitch of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for an experiment that implied that reversing the direction of time would not precisely reverse the course of certain reactions of subatomic particles.
		On 23 Aug 1977, the man-powered aircraft Gossamer Condor successfully demonstrated sustained, maneuverable manpowered flight and won the £50,000 ($95,000) Kremer Prize.
		Dutch physiologist who was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the electrical properties of the heart through the electrocardiograph, which he developed as a practical clinical instrument and an important tool in the diagnosis of heart disease.
	www.todayinsci.com /9/9_29.htm (1119 words)

	Gliding Magazine \| Features
		In 1959, the British fitness and aviation enthusiast, Henry Kremer, established a prize for the first sustained, human powered flight over a figure of eight course between two points, half a mile apart, with a 10ft minimum height at the start and finish, following an unassisted take-off.
		Paul found the prize motivating because he had acquired a comparable debt by supporting a friend's boat company which did not succeed.
		The design was a definite break through, winning Paul and his company the second Kremer Prize for a human powered flight across the English Channel.
	www.glidingmagazine.com /FeatureArticle.asp?id=396 (1662 words)

	MacCready Condor
		Its flight speed was between 10 and 11 mph, with Allen, a championship bicyclist and hang-glider enthusiast, developing one-third horsepower.
		he Kremer Prize was established in 1959 by industrialist Henry Kremer.
		It was originally set at £10,000 ($14,000), but as the years passed with no winners, the value increased periodically for added incentive until it reached £50,000.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/maccread_condor.htm (383 words)

	[12.0] The Prehistory Of Endurance UAVs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Such lightly-built aircraft had been developed in the competition for the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight.
		The Kremer Prize had been set up in 1959 by Henry Kremer, a British industrialist, and offered 50,000 British pounds in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of 1.6 kilometers (a mile).
		The Gossamer Condor was basically a flying wing, modified with the addition of a gondola for the pilot underneath and a canard control surface extended in front, and was mostly built of lightweight plastics.
	www.vectorsite.net /twuav12.html (3044 words)

	Mars Exploration: Zip Code Mars
		My hobbies, particularly hang gliding and bicycle racing, along with being in the right place at the right time, led me to have an opportunity to join a team of Southern Californians who were competing for the Kremer Prize for human-powered flying machines.
		In 1977 I became the lead pilot of their plane, the Gossamer Condor, after the previous pilot got what he thought was a better offer to race bicycles in Europe.
		A new human-powered flight prize was announced, with the task being to fly from England to France.
	zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov /bio-contribution.cfm?bid=250&cid=231&pid=230& (483 words)

	Paul D. MacCready, Ph.D. Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		A debt MacCready incurred helping a relative in business difficulties inspired him to pursue the prize offered by British millionaire Henry Kremer and the Royal Aeronautical Society to the designer who could create a human-powered flying machine.
		Kremer offered another prize of 100,000 British pounds for the first human-powered crossing of the English Channel.
		In 1979, the Condor's successor, the Gossamer Albatross, flew across the Channel, and won the second Kremer Prize.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/mac0bio-1 (729 words)

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