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3 days ago · Some writers date the Renaissance quite precisely; one proposed starting point is 1401, when the rival geniuses Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi competed for the contract to build the bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral (Ghiberti won).
3 days ago · Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, and the Mesoamerican writing systems (including Olmec and the Maya script) are believed to have been invented independently of one another. It is thought that the first true alphabetic writing was developed around 2000 BCE for Semitic-speaking workers in the Sinai Peninsula by giving Egyptian ...
3 days ago · The earliest existing spring driven clock is the chamber clock given to Phillip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, around 1430, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Spring power presented clockmakers with a new problem: how to keep the clock movement running at a constant rate as the spring ran down.
And the guy patented it lol. The solution in the short term has been that the IRS keeps buying IBM Z's (modern mainframes that cost 250k - 4m$ which have ALC backwards compatibility) as 1401's break down, rather than re-writing the codebase and just using much, much cheaper modern servers. They've been doing this for over 2 or 3 decades now.
5 days ago · And that’s what Popular Science did in April 1967, inviting stalwart broadcaster and veteran journalist Walter Cronkite to speculate about what the 21st century would bring. The late-1906s were ...
4 days ago · The year zero in China is believed to be 2637 B.C.E, a point in time when Emperor Huangdi is said to have invented or promoted the use of the calendar. This historic event marks the beginning of the Chinese calendar system, with each subsequent year counting forward from this arbitrary starting point.
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4 days ago · The year was **1613** when the term “computer” was first used. However, it was not used in the context we commonly think of today. Its original meaning referred to a person who performed calculations manually. Long before electronic devices existed, humans were the main computing force.
