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Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) [2] is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation ...
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 (seven of them after his death). Fessenden pioneered developments in radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation (AM ...
The first fishfinder, i.e. sonar device meant to find underwater fish or schools of fish, was invented in Japan in the 1940s by the Furuno brothers, who were radio repairmen. Building from the knowledge of fishermen who were able to determine the presence of fish, and their number, from bubbles, the Furuno brothers first planned to detect these ...
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #187 on Friday, December 15, 2023. Connections game on Friday, December 15 , 2023 The New York Times
The game shares its name with the 13th-century Italian trader and explorer Marco Polo. [4]There does not appear to be any real connection between the game and the explorer of the same name, [5] Although according to one whimsical explanation, "legend has it that the famed explorer didn't have a clue as to where he was going", this being reflected in the "it" player's behavior. [6]
Hints about Tuesday's NYT 'Connections' categories—and the answers.