In 1869, George Westinghouse patented the steam power brake. The new braking system was to replace the standard manual braking system, which was often faulty. He incorporated the Westinghouse Air Brake Company that same year. The 1893 Railroad Safety Appliance Act made air brakes compulsory […]
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Microsoft has a tough challenge ahead, as do most tech companies. Mobile technologies are growing at an alarming rate as people learn they can do more while on the go. No longer are we tied to a computer to accomplish basic tasks such as email,
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In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth. Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The Space Race was in
Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X, has long had the reputation of being invulnerable to viruses or any other malicious attacks. Then along came the Flashback attack that affected over a half million Macs. According to an Apple press release, Apple released a Java update
I’ve been testing and reviewing freeware for a long time now, so much so that it has become a large part of my life. From way back when Clif Sipe and Ian (Gizmo) Richards were producing the most respected and anticipated freeware newsletters on the
In 1984, Challenger astronauts completed the first in-space satellite repair. Shuttle astronauts George Nelson and James van Hoften used the Remote Manipulator System robot arm to retrieve the malfunctioning Solar Max astronomy satellite, fix it and send it back into orbit. The Solar Maximum Mission
30 million. 5 million. 1 billion. 18. These are the big numbers circulating around the net’s news sources discussions of Instagram this past week.With a long-awaited, and hotly-debated roll out on Android devices last week, and the announcement yesterday that Facebook plans to buy Instagram
In 1989, Intel announced shipment of the 80486 chip. The Intel 80486 microprocessor (alias i486 or Intel486) was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386. It was the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip
Windows 7 allows users to pin programs/applications to the taskbar easily via the right click context menu but there is no such option available for personal folders. It can be done though and is not too difficult. Here’s an example of how to pin the
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Facebook issued a press release stating that it has agreed to acquire Instagram , a photo-sharing app for mobile devices, for total consideration of “approximately $1 billion”, including cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter. Mark Zuckerberg, founder
In 1991, Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 was released. The new version of DOS provided the ability to run DOS in the high memory area and load some device drivers and programs in upper memory. Also added were the UNFORMAT and UNDELETE commands, MS-DOS Editor, QBasic and
In 1953, the IBM 701 was formally unveiled to the public. The IBM 701 was the first IBM large-scale electronic computer manufactured in quantity as well as IBM’s first commercially available scientific computer. It was also the first IBM machine in which programs were stored
In 1983, the first spacewalk of the Shuttle program occurred as part of the STS-6 mission. The spacewalk was performed by Mission Specialists Donald H. Peterson and F. Story Musgrave and lasted about 4 hours and 17 minutes. Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-6.html
