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- Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
23: - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
3: ...nched much like the style of today's [[dot-matrix printer]]s. This type of document was rare compared to th...
16: ...[[Greek language|Greek]] or [[Latin]] and usually dating from the [[4th century]] to the [[8th century...
18: ==Manuscripts today==
23: ...or]] or [[composer]], which generally follows standardized typographic and formatting rules. In film a... - Bookbinding (7761 bytes)
8: ...he mid-[[15th century]], bookbinding began to standardize somewhat. But page sizes still varied consi...
14: ...ques in use today. Commercially-produced books today tend to be of one of four categories:
26: ...o be disassembled and reassembled by hand without damage.
55: ... mills can produce very large sheets, so a modern printer will often print 64 or 128 pages on a single shee... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: ...logue]]s). The largest commercial and industrial printer in the world is [[Montr顬]], [[Quebec]] based [[...
11: ...68]], a Buddhist scripture). The [[movable type]] printer was invented by [[Pi Sheng]] in 1040. The movable...
15: ...an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America ...
21: ...], [[Inkjet printer|inkjet]], or other [[computer printer]]. In recent years, computer printing and industr...
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]] - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...an]] goldsmith and eventual [[printer (publisher)|printer]], [[Johann Gutenberg]] in the 1450s. This event...
8: ... in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[...
12: ...limited the number of different pages created per day. Books produced in this period, between the firs...
18: ...anbul]] (a popular destination for thousands of Andalusian Jews).
25: ... similar to the [[Bible]] which could guarantee a printer return on the high capital investment of a printi... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...homas Alva Edison''' ([[February 11]], [[1847]] – [[October 18]], [[1931]]) was an [[United Stat...
7: ...homas Edison bought a house in [[Fort Myers, Florida]] (Seminole Lodge) as a winter retreat. [[Henry F...
10: ...anged. He and his family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave tho...
16: ...ing. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her so...
18: ...er to be typeset and printed on a moving train. Today, the paper is known as the Port Huron [[''Times-... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
10: [[Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg|thumb|350px|right|United States Capitol...
15: ...tion of a whole Congressional district elsewhere—are still guaranteed one whole seat. These seat...
26: ...e internet, on the legislative database [[THOMAS (database)|THOMAS]].
31: ...[[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]])—impose limitations on Congress's power.
33: ... revenue bill—or any bill, for that matter—or add amendments that change its nature. In th... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
7: ...ern and more secure [[Unix]]-based successor (AKA Darwin, a modern OS based on Mach 3.0 and 4.4 BSD), ...
17: * The 3.5" hard-shelled [[floppy disk]] as a standard feature.
18: * [[Audio]] as a standard feature, including a built-in audio-quality spe...
24: * The [[PostScript]] [[laser printer]]
28: * Audio input/output as a standard feature ([[Macintosh IIsi|Mac IIsi]] & [[Macint... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...configured in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can automatically solve the problem or...
10: ...ows might be used to model the flow of water in a dam. Such ''[[analog signal|analog]]'' computers we...
12: In most computers today, the problem is first translated into mathematic...
18: ...put devices like light bulbs, LEDs, monitors, and printers.
47: **[[Personal Digital Assistant]] (PDA) - Computer hardware (4023 bytes)
1: ...al parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the [[software]...
2: ...between hardware and software is slightly blurry—[[firmware]] is software that is "built-in" to ...
6: ...ess Memory)- for program execution and short term data-storage, so the computer doesn't have to take t...
10: ...** [[Industry_Standard_Architecture|ISA]] bus (outdated)
16: ...[[peripheral]] devices such as [[computer printer|printer]]s or [[image scanner|scanners]] - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
2: ...of the Bath|KCB]]''' ([[February 22]], [[1857]] – [[January 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer...
7: ...us artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were usually spent on yachting or canoeing expe...
17: ...umbered, the garrison withstood the siege for 217 days, and much of this is attributable to some of th...
31: ...s late marriage to a woman young enough to be his daughter in order to deflect persistent rumours abou...
49: ...aden-Powells had three children - one son and two daughters (who gained the courtesy titles of [[The H... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
7: One day he was called to a neighbor's house to help with...
11: ...College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which today is [[Iowa State University]].
25: ...than 300 uses for the peanut ranging from glue to printer's ink; however, contrary to popular belief, this ...
29: ...ngs to establish the George Washington Carver Foundation at Tuskegee University. He was even honoured ...
32: Upon returning home one day, George Washington Carver took a bad fall down a... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...isch zur Laden zum Gutenberg''' (circa [[1398]] – [[February 3]], [[1468]]), a [[Holy Roman Empi...
9: ...e writing system, printed material was not as abundant as that of Renaissance Europe.
21: ...the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder.
26: ...his death in Mainz in 1468, Fust became the first printer to publish a book with his name on it.
38: The [[Gutenberg Bible]]s surviving today are sometimes called the oldest surviving books ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|American]] [[printer (publisher)|printer]], [[journalist]], [[publisher]], [[author]], [[p...
21: ...prenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Courant''.
23: ...mises empty, he again worked as a compositor in a printer's shop in what is now the [[Church of St Batholom...
25: ... is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
34: ...ally became the [[University of Pennsylvania]], today a member of the [[Ivy League]]. He founded an Am... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...or]] to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. Digita...
18: ...ilable for considerably lower prices. (The [[Ritz Dakota Digital]] is an extreme example.)
24: ...n use the [[PictBridge]] standard to connect to a printer without using a computer, and some can display pi...
38: ...copied from one media to another without any degradation.
40: ... own pictures using a computer and consumer-grade printer. - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Nicholson took the copy Key gave him to a printer, where it was published as a [[broadside]] on [[S...
11: ...lag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, is today on display in the [[National Museum of American ...
13: The next day, Key wrote a poem aboard the ship on the back of...
15: ...ted anonymously in Baltimore on [[September 17]]—of these, two known copies still exist.
19: ...ery professional baseball game in United States today, though it is now performed prior to the first p... - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
2: '''Hannibal Hamlin''' ([[August 27]], [[1809]] – [[July 4]], [[1891]]) was an [[American politi...
4: ... in [[Paris, Maine|Paris]], and a compositor at a printer's office. He studied law and was admitted to the ...
10: ...ted States)|Democrat]], Hamlin supported the candidacy of [[Franklin Pierce]] in [[1852]]. However, he...
25: [[Hamlin County, South Dakota]] is named in his honor.
35: ...idential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[William L. Dayton]]|after=[[Andrew Johnson]] *|years=[[U.S. pre... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: ...o [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in accordance with the [[Anno Domini]]/[[Common Era]] number...
6: ...aming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of earlier centuries. This dream turned ...
18: ...01-1714 |publisher=Historyofwar.org |date= |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref>
19: ...'' and the ''The Norwich Post'' becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
25: ...publisher=Historic-uk.com |date=2007-05-03 |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref> - Color (30968 bytes)
62: <th><math>\lambda \,\!</math>/nm</th>
147: ...r ''apparition'' by [[Isaac Newton]] in [[1671]]—contains all those colors that consist of visib...
152: ...ble should not be interpreted as a definite list—the pure spectral colors form a continuous spec...
157: ...een light. Were you to print this page on a color printer, the orange patch on the paper, when lit with whi...
172: ... with different mixes of wavelengths differently—and we have [[language]] to describe that diffe...
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