By: tianli | 2011-04-19 | Leadership History Foundation L. M. Ericsson Lars Magnus Ericsson began his association with telephones in his youth as an instrument maker read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-23 | Business Comparison to ten-pin bowling An early 20th century four-lane candlepin alley in Windsor, Vermont, USA, about 1910 Candlepin bowling was developed in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts by a local bowling center owner, Justin White some years before both the standardization of the ten-pin sport in 1895, and the invention of duckpin bowling. Today the game is enjoyed in many diverse places such as California and Germany in addition to New England. As in other forms of bowling read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-22 | Business History Before incandescent lamps, gas lighting was employed in cities. The earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, but later designs employed ignition devices that would automatically strike the flame when the gas supply was activated. The earliest of such street lamps were built in the Arab Empire, especially in Crdoba, Spain. The first modern street lamps, which used kerosene, were introduced in Lvov, Poland in 1853 read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-30 | Business History Early beagle-type dogs Dogs of similar size and purpose to the modern Beagle[a] can be traced in Ancient Greece back to around the 5th century BC. Xenophon, born around 433 BC, in his Treatise on Hunting or Cynegeticus refers to a hound that hunted hares by scent and was followed on foot. Dogs of this type were taken to Rome[citation needed] and may have been imported to Roman Britain read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-12 | Business No matter what kind of channel resources, has its own unique characteristics, casual difficult for enterprises to choose "universal unity" channel model, combining a variety of primary and secondary mode of combination, it may be more responsive to the future of the casual wear market With economic development and social progress, China's urban and rural lifestyles are changing, urban 1 / 3 of the time in casual status, lifestyle changes, people's basic needs are changing read more
By: gaga | 2010-11-13 | Business Magnetometer types Magnetometers for non-space use evolved from the 19th to mid 20th century, when they were first employed in space flight. A main constraint on magnetometers used in space is the availability of energy and weight. Magnetometers have fallen into 3 major categories: the fluxgate type, search coil and the ionized vapor magnetometers. The newest type is the Obeurhauser type based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-13 | Business History Franklin Hiram King coined the term permanent agriculture in his classic book from 1911, Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan. In this context, permanent agriculture is understood as agriculture that can be sustained indefinitely. In 1929, Joseph Russell Smith took up the term as the subtitle for Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-14 | Business Early life Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (ne Revere) and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Sr., a barber who died in 1961 from liver cirrhosis. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. He has three older siblings. Freeman's family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play read more
By: tianli | 2011-04-11 | Project management Features Earlier Turion 64 processors are compatible with AMD's Socket 754. The newer "Richmond" models are designed for AMD's Socket S1. They are equipped with 512 or 1024 KiB of L2 cache read more
By: Suzette G Austin | 2010-04-01 | Health & Fitness Have you ever wondered what ingredients are really in your toothpaste? I was so surprised the other day when I actually read the ingredients of my favourite brand and then was shocked when I researched some of these ingredients. read more
By: Scott Spiegel | 2010-03-29 | News and society Thanks to the Obama administration's new Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), known as Cash-for-Clunkers, American taxpayers are now subsidizing car owners to do what they would have done eventually-scrap their old cars and buy new ones. CARS is perversely profligate in numerous ways, among them the fact that car dealers must waste time filling out onerous paperwork to get reimbursed by the government and adding legal riders to contracts with car buyers regarding liability for rebates. read more
By: Dominic Longpre | 2012-05-29 | Internet Marketing Today we are going to compare High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) with LED. Based on the knowledge we learned about LED before, we basically know that LED lights are more efficiency, more energy saving, more durable than incandescent lights and compact fluorescent lights (CFL). read more
By: Jonathan Nelson | 2011-12-08 | Supplements For decades explorers in Central and South America, Asia, and Africa carried a bottle of sodium chlorite in their gear to help purify running water and make it potable when there is no other water source available. It has been called “bottled oxygen”, and has been around for many years as an effective method of killing germs, bacteria, and pathogens in the water of these areas. read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-30 | Business History, influences and background In the late 1500s, Rome was the seat of an extremely powerful and influential papacy which were struggling with Protestantism's efforts to covert several Roman Catholics. As a response to the Protestant Reformation, the Curia started the Counter-Reformation, (after the Council of Trent), a period in which the church's policies and influence abroad would be strengthened. Due to this Catholic Reformation, popes in Rome hired several architects read more