The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...

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The Sturtevant Mill Company is recognized as the first to design an automatic transmission and use it in a car in 1905. But the car was a failure and while other companies attempted to improve on ...

The Chinese also invented fireworks rockets, which many people enjoy blowing up on the Fourth of July or New Year's Eve. Rocket technology improved slowly until the 20th century, when scientists ...

If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...

The single most influential programming language today might be C. Invented at Bell Labs in the ’70s, it was one of the first high-level programming languages to have an operating system written in it ...

Random House We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live," by New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison (to be ...

The first of these contraptions hit the market in 1908 in Schollach, Germany, after being invented by hotelier Robert Winterhalde. A few decades later, in 1936, Sun Valley, Idaho, would become the ...

This tutorial explains what is different and special about a functional programmer's approach, and demonstrates how to implement JavaScript functions from a functional programming point of view. It ...

The Man Who Invented the “Psychopath” Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them. Illustration by Aaron Lowell Denton ...

Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal ...