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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. By the early 1970s, Singapore was home to manufacturing plants for Fairchild Semiconductor , General Electric , Hewlett Packard , and Texas Instruments , among others, joined by Matsushita (now Panasonic) in 1973 and Nippon Electric Company (now NEC ) in 1977.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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But with ICESat-2 still years away from launching and a favorable political environment for public earth-science funding in the United States, NASA organized Operation IceBridge , a large-scale aircraft-based campaign to cover the laser-altimetry data gap in Greenland and Antarctica. At the time, two U.S.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008.

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