61 years ago today, on June 14th 1951 the very first electronic computer produced in series (and in the United States), the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was delivered to the US States Census Bureau at the price of $1.6 Mio. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the first general-purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC.
As you might know for sure, Benjamin Franklin wasn't only an enthusiastic scientist, inventor, and author, but also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His roots lay back in Boston, where he was born in 1706 as the son of a chandler. Therefore the family could not afford the adequate education for their 17 children....
"Es ist alles eitel", so lautet der Titel eines berühmten Gedichts von Andreas Gryphius, der damit die Weltfluchtstimmung des Barocks verbunden mit der Sinnlosigkeit allen irdischen Strebens auf heute immer noch beeindruckende Weise zu beschreiben verstand. Eitel, so mutet einem auch das beständige Hinterherhecheln des Herzogs von Croÿ nach Titeln und Ehren an, das er über weite Strecken seines "geheimen" Tagebuchs hinweg immer wieder und wieder beschreibt. Doch befinden wir uns bereits im 18. Jahrhundert, dem Zeitalter der Aufklärung, und Emanuel Herzog von Croÿs Streben beschränkt sich zum großen Glück des Lesers nicht nur auf das Dasein eines Hofschranzens, sondern er ist interessiert und fasziniert zugleich von allen intellektuellen, wissenschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen, die seine Zeit hervorgebracht hat.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States.
ALL of the reading material in the vast Library of Congress may be housed in a few small filing cabinets! To anyone who has seen the thousands of massive volumes in this great building, such a statement seems fantastic. But it remains a fact. Through recent developments in microphotography and the perfection of a new type of micro-grain film, the contents of two 10×15 inch pages can be reduced 400 times to occupy but three-fourths of a square inch of film.
On April 27, 1737, English historian and Member of Parliament Edward Gibbon was born. His most famous work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose as well as for its scientific historic accuracy, which made it a model for later historians.
On February 13, 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly introduced Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, the first general purpose, electronic computer. ENIAC was a giant step forward in computing technology.
Prof. Dr. Ernst Schulin: Treitschke und Max Weber, Meinecke und Gerhard Ritter.
Politik und Geschichte in Freiburg zwischen 1863 und 1967
Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Dichter und Denker in Freiburg" im Wintersemester 2006 / 2006
Videolecture via OSOTIS
During the night of 23 to 24 July 1775, French criminal and criminalist Eugene Vidocq was born. Vidocq is considered the world's first private detective and father of modern criminology. His life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac.
On this day in 1848, the the New York Herald, a major newspaper of the American East Coast printed the exciting news that gold has been found on the West Coast, which caused thousands of immigrants from all over the world to travel to California hoping to to find wealth and glory.