1995 javascript introduced on netscape browser

The year is 1995 and javascript is introduced initially on a Netscape Browser by Brendan Eich.

As a computer programmer Brendan Eich was working for Netscape communication and initially this programming language was called Mocha and later renamed LiveScript and finally JavaScript.

The Java story starts a few years earlier when " The Green Team " is assembled. Their task is called "the Green Project". They were contracted by Sun to locate the future trend or computer technology wave.

The Green Project members counted 13 and this was 1991. Their research showed that the next computer generation would see a merger of computer and digitally controlled consumer devices.

The teams task was not about developing a new computer language but the study did lead to the development of a new software programming tool. StarSeven with it's mascot Duke, the Green Team technology character was used to introduce the new software language.

*7 or StarSeven had been programmed in a language called "Oak" which was invented by a member of the Green Team called James Gosling. Initially the products written in this new computer language were not meant for the internet. The team was trying to hit the cable TV market but found no real success.

They shifted their focus to the internet which was just beginning to take off.

By 1995 Gosling and John Gage of Sun enter into communications that would lead to the introduction of the Java source code on the Internet in March of 1995. Within a few months people all over the world are downloading this new internet technology.

According to knowledgerush.com there is no real relationship between Java and javascript. " JavaScript is an object oriented scripting language originally developed by Netscape Communication......and it is given a syntax closer to that of Sun Microsystems' Java language....Microsoft calls their version JScript."

Both languages are well accepted on the WWW.

One major use of client side 1995 Javascript introduced on netscape browser and later adapted to many the other browsers is the coding and embedding of little functions called widgets into HTML pages. The pitfall with these types of javascript widgets is that they tend to display differently in each browser therefore it is sometimes necessary to write a different javascript code for each browser.



Resources

Java Technology - The Early years by Jon Byous
knowledgerush - LiveScript





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Fireplace invention and innovations

Here's information about the fireplace invention and innovations that makes this heating device and cooking device what it is today. It all started with the wood fireplace and no one knows exactly when the first one was designed. Of course the paleolithic stoneage fireplaces were made of stone and many great modern fireplaces continue to use mostly stone structures to provide a hearth for heating the home of for outdoor cooking.

Fast forward to the 1600's and suddenly the ability to work in metals has advanced civilizations way ahead of the time of stone workers and the knowledge of gases is expanding. Charles I of England, the man who thought himself to be divinely ordained and who insulted enough people to the point where one such group decided to execute him was the uncle of Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria. They were related through Prince Rupert's mother, Winter Queen or Elizabeth Stuart. Prince Rupert amongst other things was an inventor.

According to some sources he innovated on earlier fireplaces by simply raising the grating of the fireplace whereby accomodating for a better venting system.

Then, again in the 1600's Benjamin Franklin comes along and refines the conventional fireplace by adding a convection chamber and also innovating on the venting system. Franklin's name continues to this day to be used with fine fireplaces. Come the 1700's Count Rumford innovated the firebox which allowed for a more efficient method of moving the smoke about.

From the wood and coal burning fireplace to gas and electric powered fireplaces.

According to one source, (fireplace.co.uk) William Murdoch comes along in 1812 and introduces gas lighting to the world. Another source gives the credit of discovering illuminating gases to Philippe Lebon while yet another states it must be Dr John Clayton who discovered the concept of tapping gas to heat the home of to cook with.

Regardless by the 1900's gas and electricity was being used as an alternate source of power for the heating instruments used in the home.

The shell of these modern fireplaces often imitate the old cast iron fireplaces or the stone workers outdoor pit or the open interior stone firepits. Heat is heat and it burns hot and it can burn down a house therefore all fireplaces regardless of their source of heat are designed with products that insulate the surrounding area.

So there you have a quick overview of the way the fireplace invention and innovations came to pass.

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Resources

• fireplace.co.uk - history of the fireplace
• wikipedia - fireplace
• image of fireplace - attribution - LoneGunMan 

Other inventions by Prince Rupert

• Prince's metal - a form of gunpowder
• Prince Rupert's Drops - glass teardrops which explode when the tail is cracked
• gun boring innovation which never went public  

Who invented the automatic answering machine

When you do a search on who invented the automatic answering machine usually the names of Willy Muller or Mueller and Benjamin Thornton come up.
This device used to record phone messages while the receiver remains on the telephone has been referred as an ansafone, an answerphone, or just simply the automatic telephone answering device.

To confuse matters just a little more about who invented the answering machine we find the following pictures on a site called Recording History with this information to support the possibility that Thomas Alva Edison should receive credit for the invention.

 "Edison recognized the need right away, developing a technology designed for telephone recording in 1877, merely months later than the announcement of the telephone in 1876. Unfortunately, his first telephone recorder did not work, but fortunately it could be used for other purposes. He called it the phonograph. "

Then in 1900 a Danish inventor named Valdemar Poulson invented the telegraphone. It worked in recording phone messages but not automatically. Edison answered back ( no pun intended ) in 1914 with a gadget called the Telescribe. Then in the 1920's several inventors worked on wax cylinder concepts including Truman Steven who patented what could be considered legitimate answering machines.

In 1935 Willy Mueller a Swiss inventor commercialized an innovative invention to replace the old technology used in telephone recording devices. His answering machine was based on clock technology and could both record and send messages. It was however a huge device standing 3 feet in height. Meanwhile in the US Benjamin Thornton makes his contribution in 1936. Ipsophon was introduced in 1936 and worked on a magnetic tape concept. This was the Benjamin Thornton contribution.

Thornton's patents for the answering machine

• 1931 patent # 1831331 - apparatus for automatically recording phone messages
• 1932 patent # 1843849 - apparatus for automatically transmitting messages over a telephone line

Mueller's patents for the answering machine

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So who invented the answering machine ?

The answer seems to be Willy Mueller.




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Resources

• wikipedia answering machine
• Recording History - who invented the answering machine

Who invented the story of Area 51

UFO stories are common nowadays but who invented the story of Area 51 ?

This American military base is situated 133 km or 83 miles NW of the gambling mecca of Nevada, in the southern portion of the desert state. By some accounts it is the secret headquarters of paranormal alien activity which has been hidden in the secret vaults of American black ops.

But who invented the story of Area 51 as the military base is more commonly referred to ?

The area is surrounded by four mountain ranges.

• Crisis Corner
• Freedom Ridge
• White Sides
• Supplemental Hills

From information on spartechsoftware we learn that in the 1950's U2 spy planes were developed and tested in the area. In 1962 a prototype of the SR 71 Blackbird was tested here. Later on stealth fighter jets such as the F 11 A Nighthawk was also tested at the site. And according to the same source perhaps a new breed of supersonic plane is being tested here even today known as the Aurora which could fly and mind boggling speeds of MACH 7. These planes are rumoured to be using combinations of jet engines and pulse-detonation wave engines. (Star Trek stuff !!!)

The alien aspect of Area 51 or the invention of such starts in the 1950's also and introduces the small town of Rachel, Nevada into the story. It's a small town built on a farm and named after Rachel Jones. It's the Twilight Zone lost in space and a Mars like valley and the few hundred residents here have grown accustomed to being blasted by the occasional supersonic boom. Little Rachel Jones passed away when she was only three but the story of Rachel grew in popularity when Las Vegas resident Bob Lazar in November of 1989 went public with some controversial claims of UFO experiments being conducted in the secured Area 51 military compound.

The Lazar story went that he and some friends had visited Tikaboo Valley on a Wednesday night in April 1989 to watch the testing of alien crafts, or flying machines designed on the concept of reverse engineering of UFO technology. This had to be on a Wednesday since the instruments were only tested on this day.

Tikaboo Valley is 25 miles ahead of Rachel on H375. When his claims were made in November they were an invitation to waves of visitor or UFO gazers to that spot which came to be known as the Black Mailbox while others ventured to the nearby town of Rachel.

So the answer to who invented the story of Area 51 could well be Bob Lazar.

Lazar's story goes further where he supports his alien conspiracy claims by stating that he'd been part of the secret ops as an employee of S-4 ( Sector Four at Groom Lake )  in 1988-89 who'd worked the Papoose Lake alien spacecraft which was well hidden inside a mountain range; inside the Nellis Range which is the Nevada Test and Training Range ( NTTR ) renamed Nellis Air Force Range ( NAFR ) in 2001.

The terrain enclosed by the range is characterized by numerous small ranges of mountains, with the area between consisting of desert, including small endorheic lakes. One of these, Groom Lake, is reportedly the location of the air force's secret test facility, popularly known as Area 51.  source wikipedia 

Lazar says there were nine seperate discs and that as an employee he was given secret information about alien activity on this planet starting some 10 thousand years in the past.

The Lazar story of alien activity and reverse engineering technology being developed in the Nevada desert have been interesting and have awakened the UFOlogists in many people yet mainstream media and scholars have been quick to point to him as a charlatan or snake oil salesman. His claims of education in the field of technology at places like the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been called "bogus" and no records are found of his attendence at these colleges. He claims on the other hand that these institutions destroyed the evidence as part of a black op conspiracy.

Interesting enough!!!

geothermal drill

The geothermal drill or flame drill is an innovation on the conventional method of boring holes into the solid upper crust of the earth. Jared Potter and Potter Drilling have been advancing on this technology after father Robert Potter learnt the technology while working for Los Alamos Laboratories.

This flame drill, if it operates as well as it's inventors expect, will drill faster and deeper than conventional drills and they will do so at a cheaper cost.

Cheaper because the expensive bits required by other drills that fracture while trying to dig into rock are not a part of this process. These high end bits, usually diamond tipped, are replaced by heated tips that do not touch the rock surface and that are power by the extreme heats provided by nature or the geothermal influence.

All too much to be true ???

For those interested in the strange and the conspiracy theories then try making a correlation between this and that !!!!

Popul Vuh Descending into the Underworld

Cover of the Sarcophagus of a Mayan Lord

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Resources - CleanTechnica - Hot new drill prototype is the Holy Grail of the GeoThermal World

Who invented the guillotine ?

This information will have you up to date on who invented the guillotine ?

It was back in the French Revolution that this instrument of execution called the guillotine came to be used extensively. A death penalty sentence in the period or history and in this geographical area meant that you were to have your head decapitated or cut off while being placed under a blade which when released by the executioner would swiftly fall from it's wooden rails and render the reapers favor.

The guillotine was an invention that came from an idea developed by Joseph Guillotin when he proposed a better and perhaps more humane way of carrying out the death penalty to the National Assembly of 1789.

The guillotine was invented a few years later in 1792 by a medical man named Antoine Louis.

Camille Desmoulins, a journalist who was fired by Joseph Guillotin while he worked at the National Assembly is rumoured to have avenged his loss by naming the executioners device the Guillotine.


Execution with Guillotine,death Penalty - More bloopers are a click away

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Resources

• Wikipedia - Guillotine
• Answers - Who invented the guillotine ?