To fully appreciate the inventor who invented the piano, it helps to know a bit about the instruments that came before. Thehammered dulcimeris an early ancestor of the piano. It uses a very simple version of the piano’s mechanism: hammers that hit strings to create sound. The difference i...
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Vessels could not reach their maximum speed until they met the waters south of Rhodes. When we combine all the above evidence we find that under favorable wind conditions, ancient vessels averagedbetween 4 and 6 knots over open water, and 3 to 4 knots while working through islands or along ...
Which was the world's first supercomputer? Who invented the photostat machine? Who invented plant science? Who invented climate science? Who invented the sextant? Who invented the first combine harvester? Who built the first four-stroke engine? Who invented horticulture? Who discovered hybridoma ...
This article provides a new exploration of disabled innovation that transforms our understanding of collective contributions to the history of science and technology. It does so by showing how a user network galvanized individual inventions into disabled expertise by tracking the deve...
This leading world figure on linguistics is the same person who inventedEsperanto, which he created as a logical alternative to a single world language. Zamenhof is fluent in something like seven languages, and whose roots are Slavic (I believe Polish). ...
Which of the following statements is true of Heinz Wolff according to the passage? A.He invented a machine while in University College London. B.His interest lay in helping those living in war-stricken ares. C.He uscd to major in physics and physiology. D.He family left Berlin after WWI...
Despite Al Gore’s claims to the contrary, the Internet was not originally invented by or created by a single person. The Internet as we know it today is a combination of a number of concepts that have ultimately been merged together to provide the servi
–J.C.R. Licklider, Albert Vezza, Applications of Information Networks, Proc of the IEEE, 66(11), Nov 1978.Who invented email? Electronic mail is a natural and perhaps inevitable use of networked communication technology that developed along with the evolution of the Internet. Indeed, message ...
Who Has the Conn? The “conn” is the area of the submarine from which the rudder is controlled and where the periscope is located. Fans of sub movies – and any submariners among our readers – know that “Who has the conn?” is never in question, as ownership is announced out loud...