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- 1291: Technological Advancement
- ... groups, consumer advocates and some scientists claimed that the new drugs marketed to prevent unwanted pregnancy and to avoid unwanted menopause, were in fact endangering their health. The controversy over the new technology began when Robert A. Wilson, a Brooklyn gynaecologist wrote in his book, Feminine Forever, that menopause was deficiency disease that resulted from the lack of estragon. Wilson referred to menopause as a living decay, and even went as ...
- 1292: The Birth Of Fiber Optics-To it's Popularity
- ... and a low refractive index. The team carefully added controlled levels of dopants to make the refractive index of the core slightly higher than that of the cladding without raising attenuation dramatically. Corning Glass researchers Robert Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz invented fiber optic wire or "Optical Waveguide Fibers" (patent #3,711,262) capable of carrying 65,000 times more information than copper wire and through which information carried by ...
- 1293: Careers In Computer Engineering
- ... World Report (1997): October 7, Vol. 123, p. 96. Fernandes, Lorna. "Posse Out for Info Workers: Supply Falls Short of Demand," The Business Journal (1997): August 18, Vol. 15, No. 16, pp. 1-2. Glass, Robert L. "Computer Science Ph.D. Production - More Institutions, Fewer Degrees, More Students," The Journal of Systems and Software (1997): November, Vol. 39, No. 2, p. 91. Gornstein, Leslie. "Engineers Cashing In as High-Tech Firms ...
- 1294: The Arrival Of The Internet
- ... to mild depression. The study also suggested users of the Internet become lonely and socially withdrawn. "The more people were online, the more signs they gave of being a little bit more socially isolated," said Robert Kraut, the lead author of the study. (Schwartz, 38) Maressa Hecht Orzack, a psychologist affiliated with Harvard University Medical Center, counsels individuals on compulsive Internet use. She compares the problem with an eating disorder.(Kisken ...
- 1295: The Invention of the Computer
- ... The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950s computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ...
- 1296: Technology and Progress
- ... pain unless we are bitten in the face and we wont remember without the scars that remain. Bibliography 1. Buchanan, R. A., The Power and the Machine, Penguin Books, New York, 1994. 2. Feis, Robert, The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War Two, Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey, 1966. 3. Lapp, Ralph, Eugene, The Weapons Culture, W. W. Norton and Company inc., New York, 1968. 4. Lebow ...
- 1297: CAD/CAM Systems
- ... company, good work environment, and true teamwork to make it all happen, resulting in a very lean investment, producing optimum profits and ultimately bringing success for the entire team and the company. Works Cited Burns, Robert E., CNC Software Guide. Modern Machine Shop Apr. 1997: 60. Childs, James L., Principles of Numerical Control. New York : Industrial, 1982. Fuori, William M., and Lawrence J. Auiero. Computers and Information Processing. Englewood Cliffs : Printice ...
- 1298: Internet Access
- ... The Net". The Internet was developed primarily by Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist, in 1973 as a part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project managed by American Engineer, Robert Kahn. In 1984, the project was turned over to the private sector and to government research and scientific agencies for further development. In 1993, the Internet was turned over to the public and by early ...
- 1299: Animation
- ... 1993), p. 32. 5.Toolworks Encyclopedia, 1992 edition, CD ROM, "Animation." 6.ibid., CD ROM. 7.Compton's Encyclopedia, 1991 edition, Vol.3, "Cartoons" 8.Toolworks Encyclopedia, 1992 edition, CD ROM, "Animation." Bibliography 1.Brown, Robert. "Cartoons." Compton's Encyclopedia, (1991), Vol.3, pp. 163-165. 2.Desmond, Edward W. "Beyond Mickey Mouse." Time, Sept.27,1993, pp. 42-47. 3.Elmer, Philip. "Video Game Boom." Time, Nov.1,1993, pp ...
- 1300: Development of the Submarine
- ... targeting of weaponry. One of the more sophisticated developments in naval history has been the invention of the submarine. The submarine was born in 1620 as a leather-covered rowboat built by Cornelius Drebbel. After Robert Fulton came up with a more modern prototype in 1800, the military advantages of a nearly invisible warship were quickly divined. However, they remained unrealized for quite a while. Although Fulton probably foresaw that his ...
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