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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-01-29  |  15.0 MB  |  240x180  |  12fps  |  5 minutes, 53 seconds
Transcription: From the moment you wake up to the time you go to bed, chances are a U of M invention is making your life safer, healthier and more convenient. Skeptical? Carol Evans' Don Croman shows us some of the cool things created at the U. Someday you'll be glad the U of M built the first single particle mass spectrometer. And the laser blows the particle up and the fragments are then accelerated in an electric field. Sure it seems abstract. Same goes for that stuff they're doing with the stem cells over in biology. But your world is filled with things that began here on this campus as abstract ideas. F ...