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		Alan Turing - Home Page ^Votes:0 The Alan Turing Home Page Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma. This page is the guide to a large website dedicated to Alan Turing (1912-1954) Who was Alan Turing? Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time: 1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London 1926-31: Sherborne School 1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom 1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University 1932-35: Quantum mechanics, probability, logic 1935: Elected fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1936: The Turing machine, computability, universal machine 1936-38: Princeton University. Ph.D. Logic, algebra, number theory 1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher machine 1939-40: The Bombe, mac Read More Go to Site


		Dr. Nikola Tesla ^Votes:0 Dr. Nikola Tesla A Man of Comprehensive Solutions The following paragraphs comprise a biography of Nikola Tesla and a description of his scientific achievements, with emphasis on those which pertain to his work at Wardenclyffe. You can read the article in its entirety or click on one of the key words below to jump to that section. KEY WORDS Introduction Alternating Current (AC) motor Polyphase Power System Radio Radio-controlled boat Cathode ray tube Wireless communications system International wireless broadcasting facility Wardenclyffe Laboratory Building Wireless transmission of electrical power RADAR Electric lamps Vacuum tubes X rays Water treatment the "tesla" unit Automobile ignition system Tesla disk turbine Conclusion INTRODUCTION Nikola Tesla, one of America's greatest electrical Read More Go to Site

		InventorEd's Inventor Resource Internet Pages. Information about inventing, inventors, obtaining a patent, and enforcement of patent rights. ^Votes:0 InventorEd, Inc. Presents: K i d s I n v e n t o r R e s o u r c e s Click here to break out of Frame PLEASE Support InventorEd Your Donation Helps MIT Page on Ronald J Riley Science Fiction and Inventors You want to be an inventor but you do not know where to start? HOW I BECAME AN INVENTOR By Ronald J. Riley This is aimed at 5th through 12th grade students. When I was a child I loved to take my toys apart to see what made them work, and then put them back together. My father bought me a new hand tool every other week when he received his pay check. He gave me space in our basement for a work bench. One of the first things I did when I received a new toy was to disassemble it to see how it worked. I would then put it back together. Most of the time the toys still worked, but I clearly rem Read More Go to Site

		Leo Szilard Online ^Votes:0 Leo Szilard Online Deutsch \| EspaÑol \| Francais \| Italiano \| PortuguÊs - - translation by AltaVista Leo Szilard, near Oxford, spring 1936. Photo copyright U.C. Regents; used by permission. Contact Mandeville Special Collections Library, U.C. San Diego , for information on obtaining Szilard images. Welcome to the world of physicist, biophysicist, and "scientist of conscience" Leo Szilard (1898-1964). How do you say it? Say SIL-ahrd. Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work. In his classic 1929 paper on Maxwell's Demon, Szilard identified the unit or "bit" of information. The World Wide Web Read More Go to Site

		Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) ^Votes:0 -Advertisement- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Seung Yon Rhee Line drawing of Louis Pasteur drawn by David Wood from Genentech, Inc. Graphics Department. If one were to choose among the greatest benefactors of humanity, Louis Pasteur would certainly rank at the top. He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines. He debunked the widely accepted myth of spontaneous generation , thereby setting the stage for modern biology and biochemistry. He described the scientific basis for fermentation, wine-making, and the brewing of beer. Pasteur's work gave birth to many branches of science, and he was singlehandedly responsible for some of the most important theoretical concepts and practical applications of mod Read More Go to Site

		The History of the Microwave Oven ^Votes:0 Who Invented Microwaves? Excerpts from the book The Complete Microwave Oven Service Handbook 2007 Available on CD-ROM ( CLICK HERE ) and from the DVD You Can Fix Your Microwave Ovens Copyright ©, 1996-2007 by J. Carlton Gallawa Of course, asking "Who Invented Microwaves?" is like asking who invented electricity. Microwave energy is a natural phenomenon that occurs when electric current flows through a conductor. Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation that is very similar to sunlight and radio waves. A Brief History of the Microwave Oven Like many of today's great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, noticed so Read More Go to Site

		Welcome to Planet Sinclair ^Votes:0 The Web's biggest Sinclair-related archive Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm). Planet Sinclair is ? Chris Owen 1994-2003 Thanks to Anfyteam for the cool Java applet Read More Go to Site

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