Who invented the first microprocessor? Who invented the factory system during the Industrial Revolution? Who invented the first factory? Who invented the first computer program? Who invented computer programming language? Who invented duct tape?
Who led the Plebeian Assembly? Who built the Arch of Trajan? Who invented the computer compiler? Who built the Forum of Trajan? Who created Roman law? Who forced the Lombards out of Rome? Who led the unification of Italy? Who was involved in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry?
The floppy disk was considered a revolutionary device in the "history of computers" due to its portability, which provided a new and easy physical means of transporting data from computer to computer. Invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart, the first disks were designed for loading micro...
People often describe languages using the verbiage assigned to living things. We call Latin a “dead language,” we say that certain linguistic developments are “healthy” or “natural,” and we describe languages on the verge of “extinction” as being “endangered.” To most people, this si...
A polestar of automotive history, the name Ford is still recognizable long after Henry Ford invented the assembly line and started making beloved and reliable motor vehicles. Although he was saddled with great fortune and responsibility, Ford never had a formal education – his father raised him ...
Robert William Kearns PhD (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964...
To understand just how disadvantaged small innovative companies are in markets dominated by behemoths, consider the plight of Retractable Technologies, Inc., of Little Elm, Texas. The company manufactures a type of “safety syringe” invented by its founder, an engineer named Thomas Shaw. The devi...
So IBM invented one, modifying the existing OS on its System/360 mainframe, in addition to creating a real-time database called DataTables, "well before you had anything called a relational database," said Ahr, with strict rules around which data could be updated and when, to ensure critic...
Most notably, he invented Cheskers in 1948 and coined the name. He also fully described polyominoes and pentominoes in 1953. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland...
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