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Phillips scrounged materials to create his prototype computer, including bits and pieces of war surplus parts from old Lancaster bombers. [1] The first MONIAC was created in his landlady's garage in Croydon at a cost of £400 (equivalent to £18,000 in 2023).
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) is an international centre for critical research relating to the relationships between tourism, tourists and culture [1] based at Leeds Metropolitan University, England. The CTCC engages in pure and applied research, postgraduate education and professional development, consultancy, publications and ...
The comptometer-type calculator was the first machine to receive an all-electronic calculator engine in 1961 (the ANITA mark VII released by Sumlock comptometer of the UK). In 1890 W. T. Odhner got the rights to manufacture his calculator back from Königsberger & C , which had held them since it was first patented in 1878, but had not really ...
Piers Forster is a Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. [1] [2] A physicist by training, his research focuses on quantifying the different human causes of climate change and the way the Earth responds.
Form, Fit, and Function (also F3 or FFF) is a concept used in various industries, including manufacturing, engineering, and architecture, to describe aspects of a product's design, performance, and compliance to a specification.
An AI death calculator can now tell you when you’ll die — and it’s eerily accurate. The tool, called Life2vec, can predict life expectancy based on its study of data from 6 million Danish ...
The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when he presented a wooden model to the Royal Society of London [2] and completed in 1694). [1]
The name "Leeds" is first attested in the form "Loidis": around 731 Bede mentioned it in book II, chapter 14 of his Historia ecclesiastica, in a discussion of an altar surviving from a church erected by Edwin of Northumbria, located in "...regione quae vocatur Loidis" ('the region known as Loidis').