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AUGUST 27, 2021

Born in 1791, he received only a barebones education at church school in his village of Newington, Surrey (now part of South London). But when Phillips asked Faraday to write the review article for the. For a good summary of Faraday's article, see Aaron D. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. Five years of banging the drum, and thanks to this article, we were finally off to the races…comparatively. Comparatively. Can you share some of those anecdotes?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.

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APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." Part of the reason for its success is the price, which keeps falling—from $595 at its introduction to $149 currently, for which the consumer gets graphics and sound equal to or better than that provided by machines that cost five times as much.

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JULY 9, 2022

This article was first published as “Lotfi A. He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology.

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