1. Electronic Computer — 2024-09-07 21:29:59

   …ake months, they had to find a way to speed up the process. Flowers designed **Colossus**, the first true functioning **electronic** computer. {{Image url="Lorenz-sz40.jpg" class="left" title="Lorenz sz40" width="" }} == Humble Background == Flowe…
   …fice (GPO) in **1926** and felt that the mechanical system used for the telephone exchange could be converted to an all-electronic system. == Great minds == This gave him good experience and working the mathematician **Maxwell Newman** they proposed…
   … an electronic computer system using **1500** [[Thermionic_valve|Thermionic valves]]. Colossus could work at 5000 characters per secon…

2. English Language — 2024-07-28 12:07:12

   …'s scientists read in English. Three quarters of the world's mail is written in English. Eighty per cent of the world's electronically stored information is in English. This is due to the influence of the '''British Empire'''. The biggest Empire in…

3. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16

   … printer which Babbage originally designed for the difference engine was also completed. Both functioned perfectly. ===Electronic Age - Tommy Flowers 1940=== [[Electronic_Computer]] …

4. Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58

   …l.jpg" class="left" title="Marshall Wall" width="300" }} == Marshall Amplification is Born == He took on 18-year-old electronics apprentice, Dudley Craven, resulting in the foundation of **Marshall Amplification.** After many prototypes the classi…

5. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32

   …inked and available to anyone anywhere. The concept of the Hypertext links, allow the reader to jump instantly from one electronic document to another. Berners-Lee had already used this format when he wrote Enquire. == Small Beginnings == Many smal…

6. Vacuum Tube — 2023-09-23 15:57:19

   …ns repeaters and much more. {{Tag ids="Valve Electronic Tube Thermionic amplification "}} …

7. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

   …re whether the discovery by US researchers that a thin layer of impure liquid crystal could be used to make a crude optoelectronic display but the DSM design worked poorly and proved to be too power hungry. /* RCA pioneered LCD but the displays wer…

8. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21

   …=== Michael Tompsett 1972 === ~-[[Technology]]:[[1900s]] The first digital colour image, as featured on the cover of //Electronics Magazine//, was taken by physicist and inventor Michael Francis Tompsett in **1972.** Tompsett was a researcher at *…

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