Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s - Big Changes During The Sixties
1960s - In the United States. The movement for civil and political rights for African Americans (in the early '60s usually called Negro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s - Events And Trends
Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic changes brought about by the baby boom generation, the height of the Cold War...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s - Big Changes During The Sixties
1960s - In the United States. The movement for civil and political rights for African Americans (in the early '60s usually called Negro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia - 1960s
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sony: Encyclopedia Ii - Sony - Notable Products And Technologies
See also: List of Sony Trademarks Sony - 1950. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (1950-??) Transistor radios (1955-) Sony - 1960. Trinit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. Despite a history of succes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sony: Encyclopedia Ii - Sony - Criticism
Sony - Digital rights management. In August 2000 Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler ominously forshadowed events of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esp: Encyclopedia - Esp
ESP can mean: In the paranormal: Extra-sensory perception Effective Sensory Projection In music: E.S.P., an album by Miles Davis Ect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpigiani: Encyclopedia - Carpigiani
Carpigiani, Italian industry, specialised in producing ice cream machines located near Bologna. Its history began in 1944, when the broth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zager And Evans: Encyclopedia - Zager And Evans
Zager and Evans were a Lincoln, Nebraska rock-pop duo of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after two members, Denny Zager and Rick Eva...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Miscavige: Encyclopedia - David Miscavige
David Miscavige (born April 30, 1960) is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, a corporation that owns the trademarked na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westernisation: Encyclopedia - Westernisation
Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Wes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sony: Encyclopedia Ii - Sony - Criticism
Sony - Digital rights management. In August 2000 Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler foreshadowed events of late 200...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - 1950s And Early 1960s: Second Generation
The next major step in the history of computing was the invention of the transistor in 1947. This replaced the fragile and power hungry v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - Timeline Of Capacity And Other Technical Improvements
Hard disk - 1950s. 1956 - first commercial hard disk, the IBM 350 RAMAC disk drive, 5 megabyte. Hard disk - 1960s. Hard disk - 197...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - First Mechanical Calculators
In 1623 Wilhelm Schickard built the first mechanical calculator and thus became the father of the computing era. Since his machine used t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - 1801: Punched Card Technology
In 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom in which the pattern being woven was controlled by punched cards. The series of cards cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - 1835–1900s: First Programmable Machines
The defining feature of a "universal computer" is programmability, which allows the computer to emulate any other calculating machine by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - 1800s–1900s: Limited Mechanical Computing
By the 1900s earlier mechanical calculators, cash registers, accounting machines, and so on were redesigned to use electric motors, with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Pre-1940 Analog Computers
Before World War II, mechanical and electrical analog computers were considered the 'state of the art', and many thought they were the fu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - 1940s: First Electrical Digital Computers
The era of modern computing began with a flurry of development before and during World War II, as electronic circuits, relays, capacitors...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - First Generation Von Neumann Machines
The first working von Neumann machine was the Manchester "Baby" or Small-Scale Experimental Machine, built at the University of Mancheste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Post-1960: Third Generation And Beyond
The explosion in the use of computers began with 'Third Generation' computers. These relied on Jack St. Clair Kilby's and Robert Noyce's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - Manufacturers
Most of the world's hard disks are now manufactured by just a handful of large firms: Seagate, Maxtor (now owned by Seagate), Western Dig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - Mechanics
A hard disk uses rigid rotating platters (disks). Each platter has a planar magnetic surface on which digital data may be stored. Informa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Konrad Zuse's Z-series
Working in isolation in Nazi Germany, Konrad Zuse started construction in 1936 of his first Z-series calculators featuring memory and (in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Postwar Von Neumann Machines -- The First Generation
The first working von Neumann machine was the Manchester "Baby" or Small-Scale Experimental Machine, built at the University of Mancheste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Third Generation And Beyond Post-1960
The explosion in the use of computers began with 'Third Generation' computers. These relied on Jack St. Clair Kilby's and Robert Noyce's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - First Mechanical Calculators
In 1623 Wilhelm Schickard built the first mechanical calculator and thus became the father of the computing era. Since his machine used t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Punched Card Technology 1801–
In 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom in which the pattern being woven was controlled by punched cards. The series of cards cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - First Designs Of Programmable Machines 1835–1900s
The defining feature of a "universal computer" is programmability, which allows the computer to emulate any other calculating machine by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - More Limited Types Of Mechanical Gear Computing 1800s–1900s
By the 1900s earlier mechanical calculators, cash registers, accounting machines, and so on were redesigned to use electric motors, with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Analog Computers Pre-1940
Before World War II, mechanical and electrical analog computers were considered the 'state of the art', and many thought they were the fu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - First Generation Of Electrical Digital Computers 1940s
The era of modern computing began with a flurry of development before and during World War II, as electronic circuits, relays, capacitors...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - American Developments
In 1937, Claude Shannon produced his master's thesis at MIT that implemented Boolean algebra using electronic relays and switches for the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Colossus
During World War II, the British at Bletchley Park achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - History
The first hard disk drive was the IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson and introduced in 1955 with the IBM 305 computer. This d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - Access And Interfaces
A hard disk is generally accessed over one of a number of bus types, including ATA (IDE, EIDE), Serial ATA, SCSI, SAS, FireWire (aka IEEE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Disk - Addressing Modes
There are two modes of addressing the data blocks on more recent hard disks. The older mode is CHS addressing (Cylinder-Head-Sector), use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Film: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Film - The Birth Of Film
History of film - Technological ancestors. Main article: Precursors of film For centuries, humans had experimented with what would be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Film: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Film - The Sound Era
Experimentation with sound film technology, both for recording and playback, had been virtually constant throughout the silent era, but t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Overview
Film production in the UK has experienced a number of booms and recessions. Although many factors can be used to measure the success of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - History
Cinema of the United Kingdom - Early UK cinema. Cinema of Albania Cinema of Croatia Cinema of the Czech Republic Cinema of Denmark Cin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Art Cinema
The release of Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) marked the beginning of a successful period of UK art cinema, continuing in the 1980s with f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Film Technology
In the 1970s and 1980s British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman, Alien, Star Wars and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Black And Asian Film
Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Bibliography
Cinema of the United Kingdom - Pre-WWII. Low, Rachel. 1985. Film Making in 1930s Britain. London: George, Allen and Unwin Rotha, Paul....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Film: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Film - The Silent Era
Inventors and producers had tried from the very beginnings of moving pictures to marry the image with synchronous sound, but no practical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Film: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Film - The 'new Hollywood' Or Post-classical Cinema
'The New Hollywood' and 'post-classical cinema' are terms used to describe the period following the decline of the studio system in the 5...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Film: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Film - The Underground
Alongside the Hollywood tradition, there has also been an underground film tradition of low budget, often self-produced works created out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Stages Of Filmmaking
The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Independent Filmmaking
Filmmaking also takes place outside of the Hollywood studio system, and is commonly called independent filmmaking. An independent film (o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Film Criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. In general this can be divided into academic criticism by film scholars and journ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - The Motion Picture Industry
The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Film Crew
A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Film Venues
When it is initially produced, a film is normally shown to audiences in a movie theater. The first theater designed exclusively for cinem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Development Of Film Technology
Filmstock consists of a transparent celluloid, polyester, or other plastic base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Endurance Of Films
Films have been around for more than a century, however this is not long when you consider it in relation to other arts like painting and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - History Of Film
Mechanisms for producing artificialy created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated as early as the 1860's, including the zo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Film Theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. Classical film theory provides a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Film - Animation
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Stages Of Filmmaking
The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Independent Filmmaking
Filmmaking also takes place outside of the Hollywood studio system, and is commonly called independent filmmaking. An independent film (o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Stages Of Filmmaking
The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Independent Filmmaking
Filmmaking also takes place outside of the Hollywood studio system, and is commonly called independent filmmaking. An independent film (o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. In general this can be divided into academic criticism by film scholars and journ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - The Motion Picture Industry
The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Crew
A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Animation
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Venues
When it is initially produced, a film is normally shown to audiences in a movie theater. The first theater designed exclusively for cinem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Development Of Film Technology
Filmstock consists of a transparent celluloid, polyester, or other plastic base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Endurance Of Films
Films have been around for more than a century, however this is not long when you consider it in relation to other arts like painting and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - History Of Film
Mechanisms for producing artificialy created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated as early as the 1860's, including the zo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. Classical film theory provides a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - History Of Film
Mechanisms for producing artificialy created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated as early as the 1860's, including the zo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Animation
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auckland University Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Auckland University Of Technology - History
AUT had its origins in the Technical College system (established nationwide) which provided vocational courses to students. It was founde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stealth Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Stealth Technology - Stealth Principles
Stealth technology is not a single technology but a combination of technologies that attempt to reduce the radar cross section, specifica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian Institutes Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian Institutes Of Technology - History
The Sarkar Committee (1946) looked at technical institutes of higher education and recommended that these be set up along the lines of US...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sony: Encyclopedia Ii - Sony - Management
On March 7, 2005, Sony Corp. announced that Nobuyuki Idei will step down as Chairman and Group CEO and will be replaced by Briton Sir How...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1965 In Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - 1965 In Australia - Events
1965 in Australia - Events by Month. The Kinks and The Rolling Stones tour Australia the first hydrofoil service begins on Sydney Har...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1965 In Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - 1965 In Australia - Sport
Cricket: Australia lose a five test series away to the West Indies 2-1. The West Indies side includes greats such as Garry Sobers and Roh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s In Hong Kong: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s In Hong Kong - Economy
1960s in Hong Kong - Industry. Hong Kong's industry, following the developments in the 1950s, shifted to electronics industry and cloth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Illinois Institute Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Illinois Institute Of Technology - Architecture
On the west side of the Main Campus are three red brick buildings that were original to Armour Institute, built between 1891 and 1901. Du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solid State Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Solid State Lighting - History
For the past 150 years, lighting technology was mainly limited to incandescence and fluorescence. While derivative technologies such as h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kwansei Gakuin University: Encyclopedia Ii - Kwansei Gakuin University - Organization / Academics
Kwansei Gakuin University - Undergraduate units. School of Theology (1952) School of Humanities (1934) School of Sociology and Social ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Decision Support System: Encyclopedia Ii - Decision Support System - A Brief History
In the absence of an all-inclusive definition, we focus on the history of DSS (see also Power, 2003). According to Keen and Scott Morton ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix: Encyclopedia Ii - Unix - History
Unix - 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric worked on an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minicomputer: Encyclopedia Ii - Minicomputer - History
Minicomputer - 1960s: Origin; 1970s: Market entrenchment. The term "minicomputer" evolved in the 1960s to describe the "small" third ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinoy Rock: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinoy Rock - History
One of the first popular Filipino rock stars was Bobby Gonzalez, whose major hit was "Hahabul-Habol." Eddie Mesa, another teen idol from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Free Space Optics: Encyclopedia Ii - Free Space Optics - History
The reflected sun has been used for communications for thousands of years (heliograph). Alexander Graham Bell developed a light based fre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Washington - Garage Rock
In the early 1960s, several garage bands achieved regional and some national fame. Perhaps the most famous of these are The Wailers, whos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donald Knuth: Encyclopedia Ii - Donald Knuth - Education And Academic Work
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in mathematics in 1960 at the Case Institute of Techn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Double Overhead Cam: Encyclopedia Ii - Double Overhead Cam - History
The first DOHC engines were 2-valve designs from companies like Fiat (1912), Peugeot (1913), Alfa Romeo (6C- 1925, 512 - 1940), Maserati ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laser: Encyclopedia Ii - Laser - Uses Of Lasers
At the time of their invention in 1960, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem". Since then, they have become ubiquitous, f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economic History Of The Republic Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Economic History Of The Republic Of Ireland - 1960s
In the 1960s the economy greatly expanded, under the leadership of Seán Lemass, many rehousing schemes were started to clear the Dublin ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rfid: Encyclopedia Ii - Rfid - History Of Rfid Tags
In 1945 Léon Theremin invented an espionage tool for the Soviet government. Even though this device was a passive covert listening devic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Computing Hardware: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Computing Hardware - Second Generation -- Late 1950s And Early 1960s
The next major step in the history of computing was the invention of the transistor in 1947. This replaced the fragile and power hungry v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s - Events And Trends
Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic changes brought about by the baby boom generation, the height of the Cold War...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1960s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1960s - People
1960s - World leaders. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) Prime Minister Harold Holt (Australia) Prime Minister John McEwen (Au...   » Read the article