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Here Technologies (stylized and trade name as HERE and here) is a Dutch multinational group specialized in mapping technologies, location data and related automotive services to individuals and companies. It is majority-owned by a consortium of German automotive companies (namely Audi, BMW, the Mercedes-Benz Group) and American semiconductor ...
Eccles, William and Jordan, Frank Wilfred. Patented the Eccles–Jordan trigger circuit, [23] the so-called "bistable flip-flop ", a building block of all digital memory cells. Built from vacuum tubes, their concept was essential for the success of the Colossus codebreaking computer . 1943, 1951.
4500 BC – 3500 BC: Lost-wax casting in Israel [103] or the Indus Valley [104] 4400 BC: Fired bricks in China. [105] 4000 BC: Probable time period of the first diamond-mines in the world, in Southern India. [106] 4000 BC: Paved roads, in and around the Mesopotamian city of Ur, Iraq. [107] 4000 BC: Plumbing.
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind powered sawmill. Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding. Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle. Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera.
Etymology. The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).
1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [81] [82] [83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee .
Robert Cailliau, 1995. Robert Cailliau ( French: [kaˈjo], born 1947), is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, working with Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN, developed the World Wide Web. [197] In 2012 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution [1]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.