Technologies Archive

  • WILHELM AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

    WILHELM AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

    The Humboldt brothers rank among the most distinguished Berlin citizens. Wilhelm (1767– 1835) was a lawyer and politician, occupying various government posts. It was on his initiative that the Berlin University (later renamed Humboldt University) was founded, and he conducted studies in comparative and historical...

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  • .com celebrates 25th birthday

    .com celebrates 25th birthday

    Twenty-five years ago today Charles Hornig’s company Symbolics was the first to register a .com domain name. It was over a month before the second was registered and only three more were registered that year.

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  • Histori of Plastics

    Histori of Plastics

    1838—French chemist Henri Victor Regnault of Aix-le-Chapelle experimented with vinyl chloride a year before Parisian agricultural chemist Anselme Payen isolated cellulose from wood, a marketable plastic resembling horn and ivory that shapes easily into casings, boxes, and frames. 1843—English inventor Dr. William Montgomerie began molding cutlery handles from gutta...

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  • California Car Culture

    California Car Culture

    It is difficult to understandSouthern California withoutconsidering the influence of thecar. The introduction of the freewaysystem in LA in 1940  spawned an entirely newculture centered around the automobile. Owning acar became integral to the California identity, andthe open desert road came to symbolize the freedomof...

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  • How to destroy data securely

    How to destroy data securely

    How can you be sure that your data it’s completely gone, when you handle a lot of sensitive personal data on your PC? Even if the data has been overwritten, it’s possible to use similar software to retrieve it. Therefore simple deletion is about as...

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  • Zanussi

    Zanussi

    Founded by Antonio Zanussi in northeast Italy in 1916, Zanussi is one of the companies that helped to establish Italy’s reputation for innovative product design. Established as a leading European manufacturer of white goods (stoves, washing machines, and refrigerators), the company was acquired in 1984...

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  • What is unix time?

    What is unix time?

    Unix time is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of 1 January 1970. Unix time is not easy readable for ordinary people because it’s just a number, infinitely increasing in time....

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