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June 3, 1657: William Harvey Taken Out of Circulation 1657: The blood stops circulating in the body of the scientist who definitively established that blood indeed circulates. William Harvey is dead. Most scientists and physicians in Harvey's time were still blindly following the second-century Greek physician Galen, who proved that arteri Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 3, 1657: William Harvey Taken Out of Circulation 1657: The blood stops circulating in the body of the scientist who definitively established that blood indeed circulates. William Harvey is dead. Most scientists and physicians in Harvey's time were still blindly following the second-century Greek physician Galen, who proved that arteri Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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MySQL upgrade now slated for June, Sun says Sun pushed out a "near final" version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday.Sun wants to a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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June 20, 1840: A Simple Matter of Dots and Dashes 1840: Samuel F.B. Morse receives a U.S. patent for his dot-dash telegraphy signals, known to the world as Morse code. The code Morse devised in partnership with Alfred Vail uses a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers. It went into practical use in 1844, after he an Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 20, 1840: A Simple Matter of Dots and Dashes 1840: Samuel F.B. Morse receives a U.S. patent for his dot-dash telegraphy signals, known to the world as Morse code. The code Morse devised in partnership with Alfred Vail uses a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers. It went into practical use in 1844, after he an Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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June 25, 1867: Barbed Wire -- the Beta Version 1867: Lucien B. Smith patents barbed wire, an artificial "thorn hedge." It's an idea whose time clearly has come, but not quite in this form. Smith's design called for spools of four short, sharp metal spikes at right angles. The spools would revolve loosely and be set every 2 to 3 feet a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 25, 1867: Barbed Wire -- the Beta Version 1867: Lucien B. Smith patents barbed wire, an artificial "thorn hedge." It's an idea whose time clearly has come, but not quite in this form. Smith's design called for spools of four short, sharp metal spikes at right angles. The spools would revolve loosely and be set every 2 to 3 feet a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big 240 B.C.: Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculates the Earth's circumference. His data was rough, but he wasn't far off. Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Some contemporaries called him Pentat Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big 240 B.C.: Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculates the Earth's circumference. His data was rough, but he wasn't far off. Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Some contemporaries called him Pentat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Sir John Harvey-Jones dies at 83 Former ICI boss and TV 'troubleshooter' Sir John Harvey-Jones dies in his sleep following a long illness. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline U.S. federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communication Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Harvey Keitel to experience Life on Mars US rehash hits the small screen Here's some good news for those of you who like a good British TV series with fewer British people in it and preferably set in the US of A: American viewers will later this week get to enjoy Life on Mars relocated to New York and with Harvey Keitel as "irascible" L Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Most Papers Again Report Big Declines in Circulation Top U.S. newspapers posted further declines in weekday circulation in the six-month period ended in March, with the exception of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Newspaper Circulation Continues Its Decline The years-long decline in newspaper circulation continues to accelerate, with sales over the spring and summer falling almost 5 percent from the previous year. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline Rapidly The long decline in newspaper circulation continued to accelerate, with sales over the spring and summer falling almost 5 percent from the previous year. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Conservative writer William Buckley dead at 82 - Reuters Lompoc RecordConservative writer William Buckley dead at 82Reuters - 46 minutes agoBy Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Writer and commentator William F. Buckley, the patrician intellectual credited with founding the modern conservative movement in US politics, died Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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3G iPhone to be announced on June 9, analysts say The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.The 3G iPhone will be the "f Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware 1833: Ada Byron meets Charles Babbage. He designed an early computer, and she would write the first computer program. Ada's father was the poet Lord Byron, but her parents separated when she was a month old. Her famous -- and poetically wild -- father went to Greece, and she never knew Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware 1833: Ada Byron meets Charles Babbage. He designed an early computer, and she would write the first computer program. Ada's father was the poet Lord Byron, but her parents separated when she was a month old. Her famous -- and poetically wild -- father went to Greece, and she never knew Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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June 26, 1974: Supermarket Scanner Rings Up Historic Pack of Gum 1974: A supermarket cashier scans a multipack of chewing gum across a bar-code scanner in Troy, Ohio. It's the first product ever checked out by Universal Product Code. Some readers may be unable to remember when grocery clerks had to put price stickers on nearly every item in the Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |