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Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]
The self-aligned gate transistor, which further facilitated mass production, was invented in 1966 by Robert Bower at Hughes Aircraft [18] [19] and independently by Robert Kerwin, Donald Klein and John Sarace at Bell Labs. [20] In 1962 AT&T deployed the T-carrier for long-haul pulse-code modulation (PCM) digital voice transmission. The T1 format ...
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James Sutherland worked as an engineer for the American company Westinghouse Electric, designing fossil and nuclear power plant control systems. In 1959 the company built a computer called PRODAC IV (he was the designer of the arithmetic logic unit), using destructive-readout core memory and NOR logic.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... International Standard Book Number (1 C, 6 P) M. Mass media franchises introduced in 1966 (8 C, 3 P) P. Products ...
The 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data. [524] 1982: Direct to home satellite television transmission, with the launch of Sky One service. [525] 1982: The first laptop computer is launched, the 8/16-bit Epson HX-20. [526] 1983: Stereolithography is invented by Chuck Hull. [527]
March 16 – NASA spacecraft Gemini 8 (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle. March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the Moon. April 3 – Luna 10 is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.
In 1966, La Touche told Hare that he had given Fleming thirteen specimens of fungi (ten from his lab) and only one from his lab was showing penicillin-like antibacterial activity. [23] After this, a consensus developed that Fleming's mould had come from La Touche's lab, a floor below Fleming's, as spores which had drifted in through the open doors.