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- Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...3]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ...cs]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first American wo... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
28: * [[Laser engraving]] - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...g the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]]...
13: ... developed the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks.
18: ...nhope]], [[George E. Clymer|George E. Clymer]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Koenig]] and others introduced new ...
21: A [[document]] can also be printed by a [[laser printer]], [[Inkjet printer|inkjet]], or other [[...
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - List of sports (7304 bytes)
209: * [[Freestyle skiing]]
222: * [[Freestyle snowboarding]]
259: * [[Laser Tag]]
321: * [[Ultimate frisbee]] - Tree (23723 bytes)
20: ...e tree, and used to date cores or even wood taken from trees in the past; this practice is known as th...
22: ...biomass and absorbing [[water]] and [[nutrients]] from the [[soil]]. Above ground, the trunk gives hei...
30: ...ly disregarded as unreliable, fantasy or outright fraud. The following are now accepted as the top fiv...
41: ...l. Some past exaggerated measurements also result from measuring the complete next-to-bark measurement...
63: ... taken from the edge to the centre of the tree or from entire cross-sections. Accurate determination i... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph... - Microscope (8708 bytes)
16: [[image:Microscope.png|frame|none|Basic microscope main elements]]
29: [[Image:Microscope diagram.png|right|frame|Common optical microscope and its principal pa...
34: ...ns, they utilize light passing through the sample from below and special techniques are usually necess...
36: ...roscope is used, where the light is ''reflected'' from the examined surface. The light is fed th...
39: ...'dissecting microscope''' is designed differently from the diagrams above, and serves a different purp... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
1: [[Image:MacOKXTigerCover.jpg|Mac OS X Tiger front cover|thumb|260px|[[Mac OS X v10.4]], "Tiger"]...
4: ...ed after the [[McIntosh]], a variety of [[apple]] fruit favored by [[Jef Raskin]]. The original 128k M...
9: From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or ...
20: * Separation of a program's code from its resources to allow localization, etc.
24: * The [[PostScript]] [[laser printer]] - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
2: ... small aperture; typical exposure times can range from 5 seconds to more than an hour.
8: ...small hole, however, can produce significant [[diffraction]] effects which will result in a less cle...
10: .... Industrially produced pinholes have access to [[Laser]] etching, but a hobbiest can still produce pinho...
12: ... a sheet of [[brass]] [[shim]] or metal reclaimed from an aluminium drinks can, use fine sand paper to...
19: Where d is diameter, f is focus length (distance from hole to photographic film) and <math>\lambda</m... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious diss...
10: ...Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: ... first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill le...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]]. - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ...stern & Atlantic Railroad]], for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanoo...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
1: ...encoding disks include light holes.<br>'''4:''' Infrared LEDs shine through the disks.<br>
9: [[Image:firstmouseunderside.jpg|frame|The first computer mouse held by inventor [[Do...
11: ...with spring by ''Opocentsky'', 10/76, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3987685.html 3987685].]]
26: ... sensor will process 1512 frames per second: each frame is a rectangular array of 18*18 [[pixels]], an...
28: ...s in optical mouse technology comes in large part from competitive [[first-person shooter|FPS]] gamers... - Cornea (4779 bytes)
1: ...cornea gives a larger contribution to the total refraction than the lens, but whereas the [[curvature]...
3: ...essel]]s; it receives nutrients via [[diffusion]] from the tear fluid at the outside and the [[aqueous...
9: ...nea consists of five layers. Here they are listed from the outside to the inside:
19: ... a very different origin, function and appearance from [[endothelium|vascular endothelia]].)
25: ...sed today, parts of the cornea are removed with [[laser]]s. - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
146: ...nto the [[20th century]], as a [[pesticide]] on [[fruit tree]]s (resulting in neurological damage to t...
148: ... ingestion - directly or indirectly - of wood ash from CCA timber (the lethal human dose is approximat...
156: ...it is [[direct bandgap]], and so can be used in [[laser diode]]s and [[LED]]s to directly convert [[elect...
161: ...nic poisoning]] were somewhat ill-defined, it was frequently used for [[murder]] until the advent of t...
172: ...groundwater is of natural origin, and is released from the sediment into the groundwater due to the an... - Dysprosium (8843 bytes)
163: ...]] [[chalcogen|chalcogenide]]s are sources of [[infrared]] radiation for studying chemical reactions; ...
166: ... in the [[1950s]]. The name dysprosium is derived from [[Greece|Greek]] ''dysprositos'', "hard to get ...
169: Dysprosium is never encountered as the free element, but is found in many [[mineral]]s, inc... - Europium (8579 bytes)
154: ...een used to dope some types of plastics to make [[laser]]s. Due to its ability to absorb neutrons, it is ...
157: ...ery of europium is generally credited to [[France|French]] [[chemist]] [[Eug讥-Antole Demar硹]], who...
162: Europium is never found in nature as the free element; however, there are many minerals conta... - Gallium (9500 bytes)
138: ... color and its solid metal fractures [[Conchoidal fracture|conchoid]]ally like [[glass]]. Gallium meta...
150: ...allium, with [[optoelectronic]] devices (mostly [[laser diode]]s and light-emitting diodes) as the second...
155: ...loy, with the trade name ''[[Galinstan]]'', has a freezing point of −20 ?C.
160: .... He named the element after his native land of [[France]] and, in one of those multilingual puns so b...
163: ...serves of bauxite and zinc ores. Some flue dusts from burning coal have been shown to contain as much... - Hafnium (9162 bytes)
162: ... compound known and hafnium nitride is the most refractory of all known metal nitrides with a [[meltin...
164: ...tudied as a possible power source for gamma ray [[laser]]s.
179: It was separated from zirconium through repeated recrystallization of...
182: ...l [[zirconium]] compounds but does not exist as a free element in nature. [[Mineral]]s that contain zi...
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