Scientists
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

If the communication be through the air without any conductor, a bright light is seen between the bodies, and a sound is heard. In our small experiments we call this ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]

By the end of 1834, the Analytical Engine was not the only thing on Ada’s mind. She had turned nineteen on December 10. Lady Byron was determined that the time ...
( Category: Scientists October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Toads that have pockets, and other weird beasts The creeks ran all round the village of Santa Maria, and so to all intents and purposes we were living on an ...
( Category: Fauna October 16,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Michelin Man Many years ago, when I first started to travel in France, a kindly friend pressed a copy of the Guide Michelin into my hands, rather in the ...
( Category: Fauna October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

A Treeful of Bears ‘His form is ungainly – his intellect small –’ (So the Bellman would often remark). Hunting of the Snark The temperature in the cab of the ...
( Category: Zoology October 16,2014 )
epub |eng, eng, fra | 2011-11-30 | Author:Gerald Durrell

7. Keep Me a Colobus Sirs, We will be grateful if you can attend our dance tonight which will be at 9.00 p.m. prompt. The dance is for our sister ...
( Category: Wildlife October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 1905-06-28 | Author:Joyce Chaplin [Chaplin, Joyce]

HIS DECISION to stay in London meant that he remained at the heart of an expanding empire, which daily offered up new opportunities in the sciences and just about everything ...
( Category: American Revolution October 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral. It was Apple versus IBM, to the death. He was annoyed at having to defend Macintosh ...
( Category: Scientists October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan [Ryan, Jeff]

THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

There is very little margin for error. A single careless [mistake] that causes us to do a rebuild, or otherwise lose a build day, can easily blow 25% of our ...
( Category: Industrial Technology October 13,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1999-10-09 | Author:Douglas Botting [Douglas Botting]

At Kenema they were informed they could put up at a deserted chrome mine up in the foothills about fourteen miles out of town – a convenient spot, they were ...
( Category: Authors October 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

20 Science and Society THERE ARE TWO WAYS in which science affects human affairs. The first is familiar to everyone: Directly, and to an even greater extent indirectly, science produces ...
( Category: Anthologies October 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 8,2014 )