Thursday, November 26, 2015

26 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



1966, President Charles de Gaulle opened the world's first tidal power station at Rance estuary, in Brittany.


Birthdays

1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning.
1894 - Norbert Wiener  - Cybernetics
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German Empire, Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)






2012

Joseph E. Murray, Transplant Doctor and Nobel Prize winner 1990, died on Monday, 26 November 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/health/dr-joseph-e-murray-transplant-doctor-and-nobel-winner-dies-at-93.html

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Entrepreneurship - Starting and Growing New Businesses - Online Book

Contents

 Role of Entrepreneurs in Mixed Economies

 Rewards for the Entrepreneur

 Risks to be Born and Managed by Entrepreneurs

 Strategic Management Decisions for the New Business

 Form of Ownership Decision

 Franchising Business Opportunity

 Buying an Existing Business

 Marketing Plan

 Operations Plan

 Financial Plan

 Business Plan Presentation for Funding

 Marketing

 Operations

 Efficiency Improvement

 Quality Improvement

 Technology Management

 Human Resource Management

 Information Systems

 Ethics and Social Responsibility

 Policy, Development and Regulation of Small Business Enterprises



Bibliography

50 Steps for Every Enterpreneur Should Take to Build a Business
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252811

Monday, November 23, 2015

23 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



Discoveries, Inventions, New Methods

1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love

1964, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey of Houston performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft procedure.


Birthdays


1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Nobel - Physics - 1910)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/waals-bio.html
IIT JEE - http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2008/02/ideal-gas-equation-van-der-waals.html


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Sunday, November 22, 2015

22 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


Discoveries and Inventions



1904 - Patent for the first direct current, interpole, electric motor  in the U.S. was issued to Mathias Pfatischer of Phildadelphia, Pennsylvania under the title "Variable Speed Motor" (No.775,310).
The improvement claimed in the patent was to "effect commutation without sparking, with a variable load as well as at variable speed and which is capable of rotation in either direction." The new design added auxiliary-field pole-pieces which were small as compared to the main pole-pieces.

1932 - , the first U.S. patent for a pump with computing facility was issued to the inventors, Robert J. Jauch, Ivan R. Farnham and Ross H. Arnold for their "Liquid Dispensing Apparatus" (No. 1,888,533). The pump with the computing facility metered and displayed the exact gallons of gasoline or other liquid dispensed, and also accurately computed and showed the price in dollars and cents of the quantity delivered.


1941, in the Federal Register, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration specified the first minimum daily requirements for dietary supplements - for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium, iron, iodine, and phosphorus.

1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.





Birthdays


1809 -  Benedict Augustin Morel - Austrian-born French psychologist. He used  the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler. He authored  700-page book "Traité des dégenerescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine" in 1857.  In it he described many physical signs - various malformations - and  various intellectual and moral deviations from the normal that are to be charatcertized as mental sickness.

1904 - Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel - French physicist who shared, (with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids. His contributions to solid-state physics were used in the development of improved computer memory units.

1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley - English physiologist -  (with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - the chemical phenomena - the “sodium pump” mechanism - by which nerve impulses are transmitted.



How Musical Instrument Digital Interface changed the world of music?
Tom Bateman - Today Programme - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20425376

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

18 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management






1477 -  English printer William Caxton produced the first book printed in England, Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres (Sayings of the Philosophers).

 1845 -  Charles Thurber was issued a U.S. patent for a Writing Machine he named the Chirographer (No. 4272).

1970, Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling declared this day that large doses of Vitamin C could ward off the common cold.

http://todayinsci.com/11/11_18.htm#event


Birthdays of Discoverers (Scientists and Philosophers) and Inventors

1897 - Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett - Nobel Prize Physics - Also contributed to OR

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Economics




The Wealth of Nations was published on 9 March 1776.


Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smith's policies. Interestingly, Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to with The Wealth of Nations.



Efficiency

Industrial Engineering

Marketing Management

Principles of Management

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Production Management

Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Management

Scientific Management

Shop Management

Supply Chain Management



Supply Chain Management by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl, Pearson
First Edition 2001

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Monday, November 9, 2015

9 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


History of Discoveries, Inventions and Commercial Designs


http://todayinsci.com/11/11_09.htm

1994, the first atom of element 110 was detected at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, by an international group of scientists lead by Peter Armbruster and Sigurd Hofmann.


Birthdays

1914 - Hedy Lamarr  (Inventor and Actress)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr


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Saturday, November 7, 2015

7 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



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Birthday

1805 - Thomas Brassey - He built 10,000 km of railway in Britain, India and many other countries
1886 - Chester Barnard - Author of Functions of Executive
1878 - Lise Meitner
1942 - Tom Peters


Nobel Prize Winners
1867 - Marie Curie

1888 - Sir C.V. Raman, Bharat Ratna, Nobel Prize Winner, 1930 for Raman scattering
Raman Scattering Theory
http://plaza.ufl.edu/dwhahn/Raman%20Scattering%20Theory.pdf
Biography of C.V. Raman

Events

1876 - Patent for Cigarette manufacturing machine was issued (184,207)

1908 -  Prof. Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter. *

1918 -  Robert Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,

1940 - Collapse of Tacoma Bridge near city of Tacoma, Washington

1997 - Yangtze River blocked for new dam


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