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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Johnson was part early adopter, part showman, and part publicist for the possibilities of electricity. of Chicago.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

Old Monterey The oldest part of Monterey — an outpost of Spain and then Mexico dating back to the 17th century — lies just over a mile south of Cannery Row in a pedestrian-friendly downtown where signs flag historic adobe buildings. “I think even a cocktail should have a sense of terroir,” she said.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers. It’s really been a pleasure.

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The Sneaky Standard

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If you wanted to sell hardware in the 1980s, you were stuck building multiple versions of the same device. PCI was a chess piece—a part of a different game than the one PC manufacturers were playing. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. Floppy disks often weren’t compatible. The peripherals didn’t work across platforms.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Its part of a strategy to cover a variety of market needs with electric vehicles built around a common, flexible battery technology. The key component is a stackable battery pack that can be combined like building blocks to create larger or smaller battery packs of different shapes depending on need.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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Moreover, said Culp, reflow-soldering chip carriers to the substrate caused microcracks in the ceramic, and for a while TI inspected every part for the flaws. to build equipment for attaching the dice to the reel of laminated film. Yield was about 1 percent, and that one in 100 sometimes cracked on its way to Polaroid.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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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. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. It’s only sand.”

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