Birthday netbooks

October 16, 1846, physicians first used General anesthesia during surgery. Harvard Professor John Warren and the dentist William Morton in the presence of students put to sleep the patient to remove his tumor in the submandibular region. Those present were shocked when they saw how complicated medical operation went without a single shout of the patient.

Джон Уоррен и Уильям Мортон проводят первую операцию под общим наркозом
John Warren and William Morton performed the first operation under General anesthesia

Attempts at General anesthesia were made before, but only in 1846, ether anesthesia was first proven effective. The device, which showed the audience William Morton, was extremely simple: a glass ball with a hole for pouring the ether on the one hand, and the tube that was inserted into the patient’s mouth.

William Morton unsuccessfully tried to patent his invention and claimed that he invented a special gas “letheon”, which has no analogues in the world. But very soon it became clear that anesthesia is used for ordinary broadcast, so the glory of the discoverer of anaesthesia Morton got, and the coveted wealth due to the license on the invention — not.

Previously, doctors used a much less humane and effective methods of anesthesia: up to the XVIII century, the anesthesiologist injected the patient’s unconscious… a blow with a baton on the head. In Egypt, China and India, patients had to use opium, and in most countries, blunting of pain was achieved at the expense of spirits. The last method is rarely used today, when the operation should be carried out urgently, and effective anesthetics at hand.

With the XX century in anesthesia are not only effective, but safe drugs, such as procaine, procaine and lidocaine.

16 Oct 1923 British watchmaker John Harwood received a patent for an automatic watch. The model, shown by the inventor, got yourself through gestures of their owners in everyday life. The opening of Harwood was a resounding success: almost all watch manufacturers have bought the right to use new technologies in their products.

Before in a mechanical watch hands driven by springs, which had to start using mechanical heads. In watches automatic used a different principle. They are equipped with special metal cargo sector, which rotates in all movements of the hand. It is as if inside the clock to throw the stone — he’ll always be move due to inertia and gravity.

Механизм часов с автоподзаводом
Clock mechanism with automatic winding

Due to the design features of the design automatic watch is much more resistant to moisture than their electronic counterparts, and the accuracy of the time readings are very high. But the loop in the mechanism is made of expensive tungsten, the mechanism is very sensitive to shock, and themselves automatic watch look too heavy and thick by today’s standards.

16 Oct 2007 ASUS introduced the world’s first netbook — Eee PC 701. Before the announcement of the iPad and the popularization of tablets in 2010, there were three years when netbooks had become a symbol of inexpensive, long-lived and compact computer at a reasonable price.

The term “netbook” was invented by Psion, which in 2003 released a netBook model with a 7.7-inch display and a mobile processor, StrongARM. The functionality of the model is like a hybrid tablet and laptop, without the “full” operating system and touch screen.

ASUS Eee PC 701 - первый в мире нетбук
ASUS Eee PC 701 – the first netbook in the world

Eee PC 701 had to compete with extra low-cost laptop non-profit project OLPC (One Laptop per Child “one Laptop per child”), whose model XO-1 claimed the title of most affordable computer for buyers with low incomes or educational institutions.

Interesting to read: review ASUS EEE PC 701 laptop of your dreams!

The design of the popular netbook was the most simple: single-core processor with Celeron M 353 900 MHz 7-inch screen with 800×480 resolution, 4 GB internal memory and 512 MB of RAM. Originally the laptop came with a “educational” distribution Xadros (GNU/Linux), but wildly popular Corsair received after deliveries began with Windows XP on Board.

However, instead of becoming the first computers for the poor, netbooks (Eee PC and including) turned into additional toys for the wealthy buyers. Little computer favorite with all the Windows for $260 — it was a sensational cocktail in 2007. Any smartphones and communicators were not able to “pull” a complete web sites with such speed and ease of operation, and a computer program for reading documents and typing for a long time was inaccessible for the quality for mobile phones. Some gourmets even successfully launched three-dimensional “real computer” games on their Eee PC.

The demise of netbooks peaked in 2010-2011, when they began to push the tablet PC, and Intel (which was the main and only provider of chips for “real” netbooks) still have limited flight of fancy manufacturers of artificial restrictions and weak processors. Today, a compact model with modest processors still produced, but without the label “Netbook”, but de facto the role of compact computer for entertainment now moved to more expensive ultrabooks.


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