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History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...
A Nexus 6, an Android smartphone, displaying the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and ...
Cultural impact of the Beatles. Beatlemania: Fans and media swarm the Beatles at Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, June 1964. The English rock band the Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are commonly regarded as the foremost and most influential band in popular music history.
The Beatles begin a two day recording session, the so-called Kinfauns demos, at George Harrison's house in preparation for their next album. [75] UK 1968 May 30 S The Beatles start recording sessions for their self-titled double album, also known as the "White Album", [66] and the "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" single. [76]
Mark Lewisohn. Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) [1] is an English historian and biographer. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. [2] He has been referred to as the world's leading authority on the band. [3] His major works include The Complete Beatles ...
Shout! was a bestselling book upon release in 1981, [4] and has since sold over a million copies. [5] Randolph Hogan of The New York Times described Shout! as "the definitive biography [of the Beatles] – comprehensive, intelligent, sensitively written and exhaustively researched", [6] while the Chicago Sun-Times lauded it as "the best, most detailed, and most serious biography of the Beatles ...
Books of secrets. Books of secrets were compilations of technical and medicinal recipes and magic formulae that began to be printed in the sixteenth century and were published continuously down to the eighteenth century. They constituted one of the most popular genres in early modern scientific publishing. The books of secrets contained ...
Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone or cell phone [a] is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).