19 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1974 -  Altair 8800 microcomputer was first put on sale in the U.S. as a do-it-yourself (DIY) computer kit, for $397.


Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1852 A.A. Michelson  - Speed of Light
http://iit-jee-physics.blogspot.com/2008/04/concept-review-ch-21-speed-of-light.html

1903 George David Snell - Immunogenetics


Birthdays Other Scientists

Anne Anastaci (1908,Psychologist) - Psychological Tests

Management Knowledge Revision


Economic Analysis of Different Competitive Conditions

Factor Pricing Theory and Land Rents

Videos for the day

Social experience of long term illness
Prof Gillian Green, University of Essex
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18 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1926- In a letter published in Nature, G.N. Lewis coined the word "photon"

1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.

Birthdays

1856 - J.J. Thomson  (characterisation of cathode rays)  (http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2008/02/jee-ervision-atomic-structure-basics.html)

18 December 2015 - Science, Engineering and Management News

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26 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Birthdays

1791 - Birthday of Charles Babbage
Author of "On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures" (1832)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=cTNVAAAAMAAJ
http://archive.org/details/oneconomyofmachi00babbrich
Babbage focused on the economics of factories.

Elton Mayo (1880)

1928 - Martin Cooper - Inventor of hand-held mobile phone
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)

Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1940 - Edward C. Prescott (Economics, 2004)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2004/prescott-facts.html

Management Knowledge Revision


Required Rate of Return - Cost of Capital

Depreciation and Other Related Issues


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17 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1903 - The first powered flight was achieved by the Wright brothers in the Kitty Hawk, at Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina

Birthdays

1778 - Sir Humphry Davy
1870 - Bert Benjamin - Inventor of the Farmall tractor - USA


Noble Prize Winners

Willard Frank Libby (1908)



17 December 2015 - Science, Engineering and Management News


Money and Monetary Policy

Fiscal and Debt Policy of the Government

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29 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Events

1939 - William Shockley wrote in his diary that an amplifier can be made using semiconductor instead of vacuum tube. The transistor was made of semiconductor and Shockley shared Nobel prize for its invention in 1956 with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/December/29/

1952 - The first transistor hearing aid went on sale, the model 1010 manufactured by the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, NY, U.S.

Birthdays - Scientists, Engineers and Managers - Academicians and Professionals

1766 - Charles Macintosh (Chemist and inventor - water proof cloth)
1800 - Charles Goodyear (Vulcanizing Process)
1864 - Henry P. Deforest (Finger Printing)
1905 - Henri -Gaston Busignies (Electronic Engineer  - invented High frequency direction finders)

Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1910 Ronald Coase
        http://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/coase100.shtml
        http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbobelian/2011/12/29/happy-birthday-ronald-coase-the-father-of-the-most-influential-legal-movement-that-few-people-have-ever-heard-of/
        http://www.coase.org/coaseonline.htm

Management Knowledge Revision

Expected Values and Risk of Project Revenues
http://nraomtr.blogspot.in/2011/12/expected-values-and-risk-of-project.html

Managerial Economics of Profit - Economics for CEO
http://nraomtr.blogspot.in/2011/12/managerial-economics-of-profit.html


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15 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1939 -  Nylon yarn was sold to hosiery mills to make women's stockings. First use of commercial yarn for apparel.



Engineering and Management News - 15 December 2015

Birthdays

1852 - Antoine-Henri Becquerel - French physicist - Nobel Laureate (1903) -discovery of radioactivity in fluorescent salts of uranium.

1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea - USA -  With his brother J. Frank Duryea  he built an automobile On 28 Nov 1895, Frank drove it to win $2,000 in the first American Automobile Race in Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. The car travelled 54 miles from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois and back, in just over 10 hours. In 1896, they set up the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. in Springfield, Mass. and produced of 13 identical machines

They are recognized  as the "Fathers of the American Automobile Industry"

Productivity 

Productivity Science

Productivity Engineering

Productivity Management

Management Knowledge Revision

Elements of Supply and Demand Review Notes(Video lecture included)

Theory of Aggregate Supply and  Demand - Review Notes (Video lecture included)

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16 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1954 - Synthetic diamonds were produced at General Electric Research Laboratories by Prof. H. Tracy Hall.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/414.html
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/tcaw/10/i07/html/07chemch.html



16 December 2015 - Engineering and Management News

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Macroeconomic Objectives

Business cycles

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