A Brief History of Telescopes 1608 AD – Hans Lippershey‚ German-born Dutch lens maker‚ applied for a patent for his refracting telescope (using 2 lenses)‚ he intended them for use in the military. 1609-1610 – Galileo Galilei built his own refractor telescopes to observe the sky‚ and discovered Saturn’s rings‚ Jupiter’s moons‚ and along with many other significant discoveries. 1655 – Christian Huygens‚ a Dutch physicist and astronomer developed powerful lenses for refractor telescopes with his
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*Brief History of Windows After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800‚ Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)‚ the creators of the new microcomputer‚ to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality‚ Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS’s interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo
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EUA / Jonny Gallego (EBH Member) COLUMBUS: The context for colonization. Columbus was “The Discoverer” of America. (Obviously‚ there were people living there before his arrival‚ but for Europeans‚ he was the Discoverer) In addition‚ Columbus was not the first one who explored America‚ there were previous explorations before: Explorers from Siberia‚ Indonesia‚ Japan… were in America before Columbus‚ so without the help of these previous explorations‚ Columbus wouldn’t have been in America. ELEMENTS
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Syria is an ancient land with great history‚ dating back to the dawn of civilization. Syria is part of the Fertile Crescent‚ and signs of civilization date back to 10‚000 BC. From around 2‚000 BC Syria was occupied successively by the Sumerians‚ Egyptians‚ Hittites‚ Assyrians and Babylonians. Throughout history it went on to be conquered by the great empires such as Persia‚ Rome‚ the Islamic Empire‚ the Ottomans‚ and France. Following World War II‚ Syria became independent from France and spent the
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A Brief History of Finland When looking through the main events in Finnish history‚ broadly speaking‚ it can be divided into three chapters: the Swedish period prior to 1809‚ the Russian period from 1809 to 1917‚ and the independent period from 1917 to the present day. Finland was part of the Swedish Empire from 1150 to 1809. As we are focusing on the main events in Finnish history‚ we are going to begin from the 17th century. During the 17th century‚ while Finland was under Swedish Rule‚ it
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A Brief History Of Computers The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago‚ at the birth of the abacus‚ a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around‚ according to programming rules memorized by the user‚ all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe‚ used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added
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Brief History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control‚ it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms‚ and it is
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The Progressive Movement The progressive movement is the first reform movement of the 20th century rooted in an effort to regulate and control big business‚ and it offered social justice and economic opportunity for all (Carnes and Garraty 2012). The makeup of the group included those who felt separated from the Republican Party. The group included farmers‚ factory workers‚ women‚ minorities‚ the immigrant working class‚ and the middle-class consumers. The Republican Party had adopted an economic
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DEVELOPMENT OF FILM Birth of Film 1878 | - 1st Motion Picture created by Eadweard Muybridge on a farm in California- Photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic Cameras (00:51 to 00:58 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1888 | - 1st celluloid film shot by Louis Aime Augustin using single lens camera in Yorkshire‚ Great Britain called “Roundhay Garden Scene” (01:07 - 01:10 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1894 | - Thomas Edison and Whilliam Dickson invented the Kinetoscope
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A brief history of Judo Judo is an exciting unarmed combat sport that originated in the Orient as a means of self-defence which has since grown into an international competitive sport. Judo developed out of ju-juitsu‚ a form of unarmed combat beleived to have been introduced into Japan by a Chinese monk‚ Chen Yuan-ping in the early seventeenth century. Various ju-juitsu schools developed and young samuri were instructed in the art. This was in the days of chivalry among Japanese knights. Samuri
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