Thursday, December 17, 2015

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


Science, Engineering and Management Knowledge History of the Day - Index for the Year

Knowledge History of the Day - Index for the Year

Management Theory Review Blog
Management Knowledge Center
Engineering and Technology Knowledge Center
Science Knowledge Center
Social Science Knowledge Center

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