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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Kairos Power, Oakland, Calif.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. 3M got into the floppy disk market around the fall of 1973. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. inch floppy.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR). Project partners include Petron Scientech, Byogy Renewables, Birla Carbon, and Clark Atlanta University.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Simple pads on the bottom of the case carried the weight, and optical scanners detected the motion of the internal wheels. Cupertino, Calif.,

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