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- 2801: The History and Development of Computers
- ... was called a Pascaline. It used eight movable dials to add sums up to eight figures long. Pascal's device used a base of ten to accomplish this. When the ten's dial moved one revolution, the dial representing the hundred's place moved one notch and so on. The drawback to the Pascaline, of course, was its limitation to addition. In 1694, a German mathematician named Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz ...
- 2802: Accounting Information Systems in A Changing Environment
- ... any documents professionally, a spreadsheet program for any financial analysis of data not covered in the accounting packages and various other administrative utilities. The complete Microsoft Office retails for just over R3000. The information systems revolution has changed the laborious manual preparation; recording and processing of transactions into high-speed information processing systems that are very accurate. For under R20 000 Halycon Limited can maintain its competitive advantage and remain innovative ...
- 2803: Should We Legalize
- ... to the United States (Spiegel 480). This subversion of government can even reach our beauracracy as the CIA is rumored to have allowed the Nicaraguan Contras to sell drugs in the US to fund their revolution against the Sandinistas ("CIA" 20). Therefore, in South America, our persistence on Drug Prohibition has not only been unable to prevent the further imports of drugs, but also could lead to the installation of Communist ...
- 2804: The Electronic Computer
- ... Element of all of these innovations can be found in modern computer systems. The technology that led most directly to the computer was carrying out arithmetical calculations. Around the turn of the 19th century, the French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard devised an automated loom for weaving cloth containing decorative patterns. The loom was controlled by a set of punched cards that were fastened together to form a continuous tape. The patterns ...
- 2805: Slavery Is The South
- ... which under the Missouri Compromise had been free. The Missouri Compromise was originally an act to settle disputes about free states and slave states entering the Union. To repeal this was to almost beg for revolution; hence Bleeding Kansas which included the John Brown riots and caused political uproar. The Kansas and Nebraska act was a disruptive and shortsighted solution to a complicated and commanding political issue. The Compromise of 1850 ...
- 2806: Agricultural Technological Advancements
- ... had a larger influence on agriculture than they are today and will likely continue to have in the future. The technological advancements in agriculture between 1960 and 1990 are often referred to as the Green Revolution. These innovations included the development and commercialization of high-yield seeds, the increased application of chemical pesticides and herbicides, and the widespread use of modern fertilizers and irrigation techniques. Soil Science is the natural resource ...
- 2807: The Censorship Of Art
- ... What censorship is really about is the control of our new ideas and opinions that undermine the supremacy of religion or the state. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Once said French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The chains being the qualifying factors government or the church set on the rights and freedoms people have. We are supposed to have rights independent of any government intervention. Over the ...
- 2808: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... disagreed with the measures suggested and stopped the plan. Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Originally Castro was not a communist either and even had meetings with then Vice-President Richard Nixon. Fearful of Castro's revolution, people with money, like doctors, lawyers, and the mafia, left Cuba for the United States. To prevent the loss of more capital Castro's solution was to nationalize some of the businesses in Cuba. In ...
- 2809: Internal Combustion Engines
- ... gases of combustion cooled. Huygens, using a cylinder containing a piston, was able to move it in this manner by the external atmospheric pressure. The first commercially practical internal combustion engine was built by a French engineer, ( Jean Joseph ) Etienne Lenoir, about 1859-1860. It used illuminating gas as fuel. Two years later, Alphonse Beau de Rochas enunciated the principles of the four-stroke cycle, but Nickolaus August Otto built the ...
- 2810: Virtual Reality
- ... sort of puzzle-like quality, in which even children could learn to form bonds using a trial and error method. Entertainment The entertainment industry stands to gain a lot from VR. With the video game revolution of bigger and better games coming out all the time, this could be the biggest breakthrough ever. It would be fantastic to have swordfights which actually feel real. As well, virtual movies (also called vroomies ...
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