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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The conversation could have stopped there, but Robert Hale, a research engineer, took the concern seriously and helped Warren set up an experimental demonstration at the L Street station. In 1935, Henry Warren [right] received a medal from the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, for his invention of the Telechron synchronous motor.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM. in December of the same year.

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

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. It appeared in the October 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Some—like the burlesque artist Ann Corio , whose phone conversations were recorded in a dragnet search for incriminating information on prominent midtown residents—were the targets of blackmail. Newsweek reported in an article on “The Busy Wiretappers” in the spring of 1955.