The Handy Science Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) by The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

By The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Featuring a enjoyable and academic technique to discover the wonders of the area of technology, this newly up to date version poses and solutions 2,200 questions, offering an abundance of unique and fascinating technology evidence. teenagers and adults will discover probably the most attention-grabbing, strange, and quirky technology curiosities akin to: Are mobile phones risky on your healthiness? is identical pressure of yeast used to make varieties of beer? what's the cleanest fossil gasoline? what's the biggest invertebrate? Readers will locate this informative and relaxing source is chock packed with enormous quantities of fascinating technology and know-how subject matters, from the internal workings of the human body and outer house to math, pcs, planes, trains, and vehicles.

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The resulting pulses advanced counters assigned to details such as income and family size. A sorter could also be programmed to pigeonhole cards according to pattern of holes, an important aid in analyzing census statistics. , which in 1924 became IBM. 17 millimeters] thick), the de facto industry standard was set, which has endured for decades. What was MANIAC? 34 MANIAC (mathematical analyzer, numerator, integrator, and computer) was built at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory under the direction of Nicholas C.

Torvalds created the kernel—or heart of the system—“just for fun,” and released it freely to the world, where other programmers helped further its development. The world, in turn, has embraced Linux and made Torvalds into a computer folk hero. GENERAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND TECHNOLOGY What is the correct way to face a computer screen? What does it mean to “boot” a computer? Booting a computer is starting it, in the sense of turning control over to the operating system. The term comes from bootstrap, because bootstraps allow an individual to pull on boots without help from anyone else.

1919–1995) and John William Mauchly (1907–1980), virtually launched the modern era of the computer with ENIAC. What was the first successful video-arcade game? Pong, a simple electronic version of a tennis game, was the first successful videoarcade game. Although it was first marketed in 1972, Pong was actually invented 14 years earlier in 1958 by William Higinbotham (1910–1994), who, at the time, headed instrumentation design at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Invented to amuse visitors touring the laboratory, the game was so popular that visitors would stand in line for hours to play it.

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