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To do this, Nessler first divided Laible's hair into three plaits, tying each close to her scalp, moistening the hair with a secret mixture, and winding the hair into spirals around metal rods that projected from the head like horns. With self-constructed, electrically heated tongs, similar to a waffle iron, he heated the plait-covered rods ...
Karl Nessler (1872–1951), Germany/U.S. – Permanent wave machine, artificial eyebrows Bernard de Neumann (1943–2018), UK – massively parallel self-configuring multi-processor John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungary – Von Neumann computer architecture , Stochastic computing , Merge sort algorithm
Karl Marx (left) and Friedrich Engels (right) Otto von Bismarck created the first modern welfare state worldwide. Late 18th century: German idealism by Immanuel Kant [493] Mid-19th century: Marxism by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [494] 1852: Credit union by Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch in Saxony, later further developed by Friedrich ...
The interlaced video method is introduced on TVr to reduce image flicker. The transmitter Witzleben uses the new standard with 441 lines and 25 image changes, i.e. 50 fields of 220 half-lines. Until the HDTV era the interlace method remains in use. First movie encoder make it possible not to send the TV live, but to rely on recordings. 1938
An early alternative method for curling hair that was suitable for use on people was invented in 1905 by German hairdresser Karl Nessler. [5] He used a mixture of cow urine and water. The first public demonstration took place on 8 October 1905, but Nessler had been working on the idea since 1896.
The two cats were members of Welton's touring "cat circus", [3] [4] which reportedly also featured cats riding bicycles. [5] The Boxing Cats was filmed in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, on 35 mm. [1] The film has been described as a precursor to cat videos popular on the Internet. [2] [5]
The internet is lapping up a catchy new parody song poking fun at former President Donald Trump’s “they’re eating the cats” debate comment — with the music video raking in hundreds of ...
The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...