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  2. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008.

  3. PDF - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 November 2024. Portable Document Format, a digital file format For other uses, see PDF (disambiguation). Portable Document Format Adobe PDF icon Filename extension.pdf Internet media type application/pdf, application/x-pdf application/x-bzpdf application/x-gzpdf Type code PDF (including a single ...

  4. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Braille music is a complete, well developed, and internationally accepted musical notation system that has symbols and notational conventions quite independent of print music notation. It is linear in nature, similar to a printed language and different from the two-dimensional nature of standard printed music notation.

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  6. Potato chip - Wikipedia

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    At first, potato chips were packaged in barrels or tins, which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled. In the 1920s, Laura Scudder, [31] [32] [33] an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California, started having her workers take home sheets of wax paper to iron into the form of bags, which were filled with chips at her factory the next day ...

  7. List of creators of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    W. John (or John W.) Weilgart - Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and philosopher; creator of the philosophical language aUI and its writing system. John Wilkins - English academic. Invented the so-called 'real character' as a writing system for a proposed Philosophical language in 1668. John Willis - English, invented a system of shorthand ...

  8. Timeline of music technology - Wikipedia

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    Hughes discovered that electrical currents varied when sound vibrations were passed through carbon packed into a confined space. His first broadcast was of scratching insects. 1877 : Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner simultaneously invented the first prototypes of the phonograph; 1888 : Thomas Edison introduces the electric motor-driven phonograph

  9. History of music publishing - Wikipedia

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    A page from the Mellon Chansonnier (c.1470), prepared for the wedding of Catherine of Aragon. Music publishing is the business of creating, producing and distributing printed musical scores, parts, and books in various types of music notation, while ensuring that the composer, songwriter and other creators receive credit and royalties or other payment (where applicable).