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... Benz. The Duryea brothers - Charles Edgar and James Frank - were technological pioneers. They invented the first commercial American automobile... ...tree trunks in his back yard in Camden, New Jersey. The sound was broadcast from a radio placed behind the screen and, later, from speakers he moun... ...pacity of between 50 and 3000 cars. The soundtrack is now delivered through the car radio. http://www.driveintheater.com/history/ http://inventors.... ...ed passengers transferred to it from two other cruise liners due to a strike. The radio operator of the "Californian" was asleep and did not hear ...

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...ondary beauty, as proposed in Cosmo-Art, if we are convinced we can become pioneers of a new art form that opens up new prospects and infinite creat... ...o understand the structure of the universe. We could have done so by using radio astronomy. The answer that I consider the best is that light is n...

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...rend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or downloadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they w... ...loadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts. But the novelty is that the Internet provides a ve... ...ur lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "global" and trans... ...e) became semi-public property - with access granted to the chosen few. Radio took precisely this course. Radio transmissions started in the USA in... ... not for profit organizations began their own broadcasts and even created radio broadcasting infrastructure (albeit of the cheap and local kind)dedi... ... (though the countries of Central Europe and the Baltic may be the global pioneers of m- commerce due to their wireless networks). E-commerce is le...

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...up every 21 When a BBC radio show asked listeners to choose ―the British Person of the Millennium,... ...graph 1879  Lightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and e... ...r phones. 1990s  Wireless networking, webcams, GPS, smart phones. The pioneers Many creative individuals laid blocks for the latest informati... ...en more technology-gifted or become better known to the public, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not relate... ...k then evolved into the Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Inter... ...ery sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first targeted radio stations because they were the primary source of information for the...

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...to read. 21 When a BBC radio show asked listeners to choose ―the British Person of the Millennium,... ...graph 1879  Lightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and e... ...r phones. 1990s  Wireless networking, webcams, GPS, smart phones. The pioneers Many creative individuals laid blocks for the latest information ... ...en more technology-gifted or become better known to the public, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not relate... ...k then evolved into the Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Intern... ...every sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first targeted radio stations because they were the primary source of information for the...

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...es. The more energy it sucks in, the more powerfully it spews gamma rays and radio waves out of its two polar orifices. Things do not disappear in... ...r be able to create Life in a laboratory test-tube. Today, we know that all radioactive radiation causes mutations in living organisms. This is be... ...on. In fact: organic evolution is based upon Energy evolution. In this case: radioactive THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Two: Life 129 129 ... ...E PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Two: Life 129 129 mutation. What kind of radioactive radiation did the planet absorb from the Sun, back when Lif... ...in the oceans of the Earth, and the energy of the water itself: when they had radioactively aged and mutated to a specific atomic weight that only ex... ...e elm tree and burning the scraps and branches of that one dead tree gave the pioneers enough potash to buy 2 more acres of land. Tempt land hungry ... ...m: killing everything they could en masse. These were the glorified fucking ‘pioneers’ the stealers of land from people who had lived there for thou... ...o be ignored and used, raped, destroyed, gaped-at, or by-passed. By American pioneers crossing an entire continent. Ignoring the thousands of miles... ...ment of taking three modern-day families and making them live as homesteading pioneers for only six short months in the PBS television Docu-drama: ‘P...

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...an being, for example? Or stuff that is collectively owned—would that be the radio spectrum or a public park? Or stuff that is owned by no one, such a... ...could even argue that Napster users would have access to most songs over the radio for free. But lawyers’ quibbling about which way the rule cuts in t... ...tors, you can quickly reach the same num- ber of ears that the payola-soaked radio waves allow the record companies to reach. One need not cheer Groks... ...ers press on. They have two new demands. Cars should be fitted with mandatory radio beacons and highways put under constant state surveillance in order... ...re moving in the direction of regulating still more technology—the mandatory radio beacons and constantly monitored roads conjure up a police state—an... ...nterprise will cause some of you to shudder. Professor Drew Endy, one of the pioneers in this field, believes that part of that reaction stems from sim...

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...cs named Rufus was giv- ing a course of afternoon lectures upon Radium and Radio- Activity in Edinburgh. They were lectures that had attracted a very ... ...t first discovery that lifted man above the brute. We stand to-day towards radio-activity as our ancestor stood towards fire before he had learnt to m... ...o, a red destruction that poured through the forest. So it is that we know radio-activity to-day. This—this is the dawn of a new day in human living. ... ... in the very be- ginning of the twentieth century, the problem of inducing radio-activity in the heavier elements and so tapping the in- ternal energy... ... and luck by Holsten so soon as the year 1933. From the first detection of radio-activity to its first subjugation to human purpose measured little mo... ...nd inconclusive contentment with little things. Candide was but one of the pioneers of a litera- 149 H G Wells ture of uneasy complaint that was pres...

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...anding kindness. “Psy- chic,” the girls whispered, and “spiritual.” Yet so radio- active were her nerves, so adventurous her trust in rather vaguely c... ...et Champ Perry in the post-office—and de- cided that in the history of the pioneers was the panacea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America. We have lo... ...et unimagined how, turn it back to simplicity? She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys. Champ Perry was the buyer at the grain-elevator. He w... ...he bosses of Gopher Prairie.” She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, the pioneers faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboar... ...inclair Lewis “How? I’ve failed at everything: the Thanatopsis, par- ties, pioneers, city hall, Guy and Vida. But— It doesn’t matter! I’m not trying t... ...omed, white-bloused, hot-necked, spectacled matrons—the Mothers in Israel, pioneers and friends of Mrs. Champ Perry—waved their palm-leaf fans in a st...

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...y felt that better times had come. They were grateful to those others, the pioneers, the new owners, who had opened out the pits, and let forth this s... ..., yet perfectly subtle and intelligent hands upon the field of his living, radio-active body. Ah, her hands were ea- ger, greedy for knowledge. But fo...