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As one of the most prominent actors of the silent film era, Charlie Chaplin is and was a legend. Over a career that spanned...
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Who Was Reynold Johnson? Born in 1906, Reynold Johnson was a remarkable American inventor, one of IBM’s most prolific inventors, specializing in electromechanical devices. Owning...
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The Complete History of Tennis for Two
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In 2011, a few Stanford University students came up with an idea that would become one of the most popular social media apps. Explore...
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Key Points: The ideas in Claude Shannon’s published papers helped jumpstart the fields of information theory and digital communications. During WWII, Shannon worked at Bell Labs...