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The following year Bull sold his second machine to the Danish insurer Hafnia who had learned of the technology through an article in an insurance trade magazine. [3] At the time of Bull's death from cancer in 1925 at the age of 43, a dozen of his machines had been sold to different companies throughout Europe. [ 3 ]
Change in per capita GDP of France, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 international dollars. The economic history of France involves major events and trends, including the elaboration and extension of the seigneurial economic system (including the enserfment of peasants) in the medieval Kingdom of France, the development of the French colonial empire in the early modern ...
Location of France. France is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.A member of the Group of 7 (formerly G8) leading industrialised countries, as of 2014, it is ranked as the world's ninth-largest and the EU's second-largest economy by purchasing power parity. [1]
Europe needs to be fast, selective and aggressive in supporting key tech industries amid U.S.-China trade tensions, the Dutch economic affairs minister said in an interview on Wednesday. Micky ...
This is a global list of largest technology companies by revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500. It shows companies identified by Fortune as being in the technology sector, ranked by total annual revenue. Other metrics not shown here, in particular market capitalization, are often used alternatively to define the size of a company.
Personal computer architectures by units sold (1975–1995) [35] Year Annual sales IBM PC compatible Apple II Macintosh Atari 8-bit Atari ST Commodore 64 Amiga PET Altair TRS-80 NeXT Other 1975 5,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5,000 0 0 0 1976 46,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,000 0 0 40,000 1977 150,000 0 600 0 0 0 0 0 4,000 10,000 100,000 0 50,000 1978 258,000 0 ...
The following is a list of the exports of France. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars , as reported by International Trade Centre . Currently the top thirty exports are listed.
France carried out its first test of an atomic bomb in Algeria in 1960 [7] and some operational French nuclear weapons became available in 1964. Then, France executed its first test of the much more powerful hydrogen bomb over its South Pacific Ocean test range in 1968; this first hydrogen bomb was dropped from a strategic bomber .