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After military service in World War I, Jones returned to Hallock. He worked as a mechanic while learning about electronics. He built a transmitter for the town's first radio station. [17] He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. [18] This attracted the attention of local entrepreneur Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis ...
Imran Chaudhri (1973– ) invented the user interface and interactions of the iPhone, also worked on the Mac, iPod, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch John Clark (1785-1853) invented the first automated poetry generator, The Eureka , and patented a method to waterproof fabric for air beds and air cushions in 1813.
The final revised documentation for PDF 1.7 was approved by ISO Technical Committee 171 in January 2008 and published as ISO 32000-1:2008 on July 1, 2008, and titled Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7. ISO 32000-1:2008 is the first ISO standard for full function PDF.
Harry Mendell, U.S. – invented the first digital sampling synthesizer; Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – household appliances; Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner; Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis) Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio ...
FileMaker is a cross-platform relational database application developed by Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface and security features, allowing users to visually modify a database.
Invented world's first functional program-controlled computer John von Neumann [ 61 ] Became "intrigued" with Turing's universal machine and later emphasised the importance of the stored-program concept for electronic computing (1945), including the possibility of allowing the machine to modify its own program in useful ways while running.
The photo was of my wedding day — my first wedding day, the one that didn’t include his father. “No,” I said quietly. “I was married to someone else before I met your dad.”
The San Francisco system was the first case of a utility selling electricity from a central plant to multiple customers via distribution lines. [11] The California Electric Light Company (now PG&E) [13] [14] purchased two generators from Charles Brush's company in 1879 and soon opened a second plant with four additional generators.