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- 3481: The Invention of the Computer
- ... invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of peoples lives for the better. The very earliest existence of the modern day computer ... for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the development of the computer began (Shallis, 121). A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
- 3482: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US- Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology ... declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of these two forms could have evolved into the other. According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS ...
- 3483: The Great Depression
- ... used the term depression instead of panic because he found the term to be less frightful and explained exactly what happened during the months that followed the crash of October 1929. He said that the American economy was like a highway, in which small crashes could be easily fixed, but he was wrong. The Great Depression was a lot longer than a brief period. No date has ever been set on ... that the news from the Great Crash was the start, and the United States would not be in a better state until the demands of the second world war. For more than ten years, the American people faced a condition in which they had no clue on how to face, or how to fix it. The responsibility for solving this crisis was greatly on the President. He, who had saved European ... 000 from 1929 in 1932. Herbert Hoover attempted to address the crisis using Republican capttalism as answers, however, none worked. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidential election. He understood that most of the American people were very optimistic. Many unemployed workers blamed themselves, and not the system. With this type of campaign, he easily won Hoover who previously had the slogan "A chicken in every pot, and a ...
- 3484: History Of The Computer Indust
- ... invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better.The very earliest existence of the modern day computer ... for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the development of the computer began (Shallis, 121).A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way, involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
- 3485: A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
- ... to accurately represent the motion of the heavens. According to Prof. Derek Price, the mean period of Saturn can be mechanically represented by a gear ratio of 30 to 1. In other words, for every revolution of the sun around the earth, Saturn will only accomplish 1/30th of its revolution around the earth. The mean period of Jupiter can be represented by a gear ratio of 12 to 1, and Mars can be represented by a gear ratio of 2.5 to 1. An interesting ... when it reappeared in a globe clock designed by Jobst Bόrgi. The differential gear later became a critical component of the cotton gin, a late 18th century invention that marked the beginning of the industrial revolution. However, devices such a the Antikythera Mechanism were quite rare. The celestial sphere was the most common form of celestial representation, prompting a number of structural modifications. Because of the difficulty in imagining the ...
- 3486: Genome Sequencing
- Genome Sequencing Microbiology has entered the realm of genome sequencing. This biological revolution is opening up new dimensions in our view of life. In 1995, a report on the entire DNA sequence for the genome of the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae was published . Although the genomes for a number ... of the organisation of life was that all living things were either plant or animal in nature. In 1990, a proposal for a new, natural system of organisms was published, based on the rRNA sequencing revolution. The more recent genome sequencing era has supported this original proposal, and as a result three domains of life are currently recognised; Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya, as shown in the universal phylogenetic tree below. When ... As such, the procaryotic definition is a negative one that offers no meaningful phylogenetic information. In the 1950's it became feasible to define procaryotes positively, on the basis of shared molecular characteristics, although this revolution, as mentioned earlier did take some time to develop. The sequencing of the M. jannaschii genome has also given some insights into the archaea's evolutionary relationships to the bacteria and the eucarya. It ...
- 3487: Fredrick Douglass
- ... old Douglass saw his hero and his true friend , William Lloyd Garrison, for the first time. A few days later, Douglass spoke before the crowd attending the annual meeting of the Massachusetts branch of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison immediately recognized Douglass's potential as a speaker, and hired him to be an agent for the society. As a traveling lecturer accompanying other abolitionist agents on tours of the northern ... issue, while others thought that it distracted attention from the struggle against slavery. In 1840, when he insisted that women be allowed to serve as delegates to abolitionist conventions, much of the membership of the American Anti-Slavery Society split off and formed a separate organization. The new group, the Foreign and American Anti-Slavery Society, was not opposed to working with political organizations, and many of its members supported the small, newly formed antislavery Liberty party (McFeely, 168). Although Garrison splintered the antislavery movement, he was ...
- 3488: Method of Communication and Different Uses of Communication
- ... a similar substance from wood pulp. Over the next few centuries printing techniques advanced rapidly, especially through the use of steam power. The first typesetting machine, the Linotype, was patented in 1884 by the German-American Ottmar Mergenthaler. In the meantime, postal services and moved from being privately to nationally owned, and long distance postal services became an affordable option. For the first time, an ordinary person could correspond with people ... television provides around 100 video channels, and a handful of audio channels. This can be received in almost any part of the world and hence has a huge audience. SKY is currently owned by an American, Rupert Murdoch, who also has control over many other media companies including many American and British newspapers. Ultimately he has so much influence over what appears in the British media it would not be a challenge to exploit this power to sway public opinion. As we move into ...
- 3489: Family Values: Importance
- Family Values: Importance America's family values are very important to our citizens. For many years the American family and its values have been one of the top priorities of our nation. The family is even an essential part of the American Dream that we Americans are so fond of. The basic idea of success in America is measured by how well one can provide for their family. But what does citezenship have to do with family values? It determines these values and set a standard for the whole of America's people. Family values are of the utmost importance to the American citizen. Family values are basically the core of our way of living. They have been important since, and even before, the very beginning of our civilization, and certainly since the founding of the United ...
- 3490: Mohandas Gandhi and His Life
- ... the National Indian congress. In 1896 after being attacked and beaten by a white mob, Gandhi began to teach passive resistance. The inspiration from this policy came from a Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and an American writer Henry David Thoreau. In 1899, at the outbreak of the Boer Wars, he helped raise 1,200 men to defend Natal and support Britain. This did nothing for the rights of the Indian community ... Gandhi found out about a new constitution that was to be passed discriminated against untouchables. Gandhi began to fast. Britain new that they better change the constitution, because if Gandhi died there would be a revolution. Gandhi resigned as president of the INC in 1934 and left the organization entirely to pursue a plan to educate "From the bottom up", starting with the rural areas of India, which accounted for 85 ...
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