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...creator of the first commercially viable lightbulb. As early as 1820, inventors were homing in on the principles that would lead to the first electric illumination. An English inventor, Joseph Swan, took their early work and developed the basis of the modern electric lightbulb in 1879 - a thin paper or metal filament surrounded by a glass-enclosed vacuum. When electricity runs through the filament, the bulb glows. Edison refined the design, trying filaments made out of platinum and cotton before eventually settling on carbonized bamboo, capable of burning for more than 1,200 hours. With Edison's design...
Detailed simultaneously on Tuesday at the Paris meeting and in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, the U.S. government-sponsored trial (both the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army provided funding) involved about 16,400 Thai volunteers. Half were given six injections comprising two AIDS vaccines, neither of which had proved effective in previous studies; the other half of the study group was given a placebo. (Read "The Flip Side of Placebos: The Nocebo Effect...
...Isetatsu A family business since 1864, the dollhouse-like Isetatsu sells brightly colored chiyogami paper decorated with woodblock prints, and other stationery reminiscent of old Edo. Tel: (81-3) 3823-1453, 2-18-9 Yanaka...
Founded by Robert Slate in the 1930s and handed over to his sons Justin and Mallory over 30 years later, Bob Slate has been a notable presence in Harvard Square, selling an eclectic mix of paper, cards, pens, and other stationery items...
...Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which is why e-mail was created in the image of the paper-postal system: tiny squirts of electronic text. (See the 50 best websites...