1468) was a German blacksmith and inventor who developed the world’s first mechanical moveable type printing press. Regarded as a milestone in modern human history, the printing press played a key role in the advancement of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment...
To the present day the history of banking software is nearly untold. While there is already some literature on the use of computers in the banking industry, most of it focuses only on the hardware and its restrictions (cf. Cortada 2006). The logic behind these machines remains untold. With ...
But the tales received from the ancient world paled before the wild popularity of the figure of King Arthur and his knights (see Arthurian legend). Arthurian romance in the wake of its great inventor, the French poet Chrétien de Troyes, overwhelmed other contenders for dominance of narrative ...
Nicéphore Niépce, an amateur inventor living near Chalon-sur-Saône, a city 189 miles (304 km) southeast of Paris, was interested in lithography, a process in which drawings are copied or drawn by hand onto lithographic stone and then printed in ink. Not artistically trained, Niépce devise...
But the tales received from the ancient world paled before the wild popularity of the figure ofKing Arthurand his knights (seeArthurian legend). Arthurian romance in the wake of its great inventor, the French poetChrétien de Troyes, overwhelmed othercontendersfor dominance of narrative poetry. ...
But the tales received from the ancient world paled before the wild popularity of the figure ofKing Arthurand his knights (seeArthurian legend). Arthurian romance in the wake of its great inventor, the French poetChrétien de Troyes, overwhelmed othercontendersfor dominance of narrative poetry. ...
Henri Frédéric AmielHenri Frédéric Amiel, detail of a heliograph by an unknown artist.(more) Nicéphore Niépce, anamateurinventor living nearChalon-sur-Saône, a city 189 miles (304 km) southeast ofParis, was interested inlithography, a process in which drawings are copied or drawn by han...
Henri Frédéric AmielHenri Frédéric Amiel, detail of a heliograph by an unknown artist.(more) Nicéphore Niépce, an amateur inventor living near Chalon-sur-Saône, a city 189 miles (304 km) southeast of Paris, was interested in lithography, a process in which drawings are copied or drawn...