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World War Ii Vacuum Tubes
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Blaise Pascal Fathers Death
1,974 wordsBlaise Pascal By Victoria Hubble Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 19 th, 1623. His mother, Antoinette Been, died when he was three; and his father, Etienne, who was a local judge with a scientific reputation, brought him up. Etienne Pascal retired and moved to Paris in 1631 to concentrate on his own scientific research and to take care of his son, Blaise, and his two daughters, Gilbert and Jacqueline. Etienne had unorthodox views of education and decided to tutor his o...
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Asbestos Containing Material Professional Asbestos Contractor Fibers
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2 O 2 H 2 O
385 wordsFor Informational Purposes Only. The authors & distributors do not advocate the use of illegal drugs and assume no liability for the use or misuse of this information. The procedures described are dangerous and should not be attempted by persons inexperienced in Organic Laboratory techniques. This formula is exemplified for MDA (3, 4 -Methylenedioxy- phenylisopropylamine); substituting N-methyl form amide results in MDMA or N-methyl MDA (Ecstacy). To a cooled mixture of 34 g 30 % H 2 O 2 and...
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Vacuum Tubes Bill Gates
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Vacuum Tubes Integrated Circuits
1,767 words-important people Allen, Paul G. - Co-founder of Microsoft Corp. Allen left the company in 1985 but remained on the board of directors and as founded or financially supported several innovative computer ventures, including Asymetrix and Starware Corp. He is involved with a variety of other projects, including a Jimi Hendrix Museum in Seattle. Amdahl, Gene M - South Dakota native who helped design the IBM 704, the S/ 360 series. He was the founder of the Amdahl Corp. Andreessen, Marc - Co-founder...
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Large Scale Integration Central Processing Unit
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Amount Of Power Von Neumann
3,698 wordsDevelopment of Computers and Technology Computers in some form are in almost everything these days. From Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form of processor in them. This is a very large change from the way it used to be, when a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed tons of pounds has the same amount of power as a scientific calculator. The changes that computers have undergone in the last 40 years have been colossal. So many things have changed ...
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Infinite Regress God Exists
1,002 wordsAquinas second proof that God exists, the proof from efficient cause, is summarized in the following: there exists things that are caused, nothing can be the cause of itself, there cannot be an infinite regress of causes, there fore, God exists. The proof of Aquinas s is a cosmological kind, basing the fact the if anything exist; an absolute necessary being must also exist. I agree with Aquinas that God is the uncaused first cause, but from a situation that was discussed in class a few weeks ago...
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Thomas Alva Edison Electric Light Bulb
4,787 wordsEdison's and His Brilliance Thomas A. Edison earned his reputation as one of Americas greatest inventors and heroes. Full of innovation, ingenuity, and enterprise, Edison embodied[d] much of what Americans have felt was positive about the national experience. Edison can put claim to 1093 US patents in addition to thousands more international patents. His works include such major contributions as advancements in telegraphy, the phonograph, a perfected nickel-iron-alkaline battery, and the first c...
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World War Ii Read Only Memory
2,262 wordsIntroduction Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people wanted and needed an easier way of calculating and measuring. Through the dreams of Charles Babbage, the computer was born. These new machines could do any regular math more than twice as fast as any human. Sadly, these ideas were not appreciated until almost one hundred years later. In the 1950 s, the idea of computers was brought up again. This is when people finally started crediting Babbage's work. The technology available...
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Frequently Asked Questions Organic Chemistry
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Heat Loss Specific Heat
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