September 11, 1985 “international comet researcher” (International Cometary Explorer, ICE) for the first time flew through the tail of the comet. The spacecraft was created through joint efforts of the US and Europe to intercept the comet and study its physical properties. The chemical analysis results again confirmed the harmlessness of gases accompanying the celestial body to the earth’s atmosphere.
Spacecraft the International Cometary Explorer
The fact that comets mankind has tied up many concerns: in the early XVIII century English astronomer Edmund Halley predicted that the Earth will pass through the tail of the comet is already the largest in 1910. After subsequent snapshots of astronomers has shown that in the spectrum of the comet contained CYANOGEN (CYANOGEN) and carbon monoxide, the public began to panic — the properties of deadly potassium cyanide has been well known.
While journalists excitedly talking about the end of the world from Halley’s comet, stretching for tens of millions of kilometers, and speculators were selling pills with “antidote”, scientists unsuccessfully tried to study its properties. It ended up that a little earlier, in 1909, the Earth passed through a mixture of gas and dust in the tail of a comet without any damage — malicious concentration of gas in the tail of a comet is negligible, and even the most sensitive instruments have not detected the abnormal phenomena after passing through threatening chemical composition.
September 11, 2005, Mitsubishi launched the world’s first contactless fingerprint reader. The device was cumbersome title Finger Transmission Authentication Device, and analyzed changes in the amount of light received through the tissue of the finger. Therefore, the scanning distance was held accurately even in the case of wet skin.
Mitsubishi Finger Transmission Authentication
This scanner was not a record and compact, mainly intended for industrial purposes — in one of the versions of the reader installed in the safes and file cabinets, another is a walk-through of the industrial objects of special importance. To the public were only the first variation of the device and was worth some $4500.
Recall that the massive proliferation of fingerprint sensors began after the release of the new iPhone 5S with the TouchID scanner.
11 Sep 2010 as Executive Director of Nokia received Stephen Elop, who previously led a division of Microsoft. With his candidacy connoisseurs Finnish brand associated subsequent collapse of the telephone unit and the sale of the company-developer Windows.
The Union of Nokia and Microsoft for the Finnish company fatal
Only one transition at Nokia, Elop received a $6 million However, the company could afford such expenses — share of Nokia was measured for 31% of all sold phones in the world.
Almost immediately after taking office, Elop insisted on the change rate of the company and called for a strategic Alliance with Microsoft. The latter was achieved in 2011, shortly after Nokia stopped the development of operating systems Symbian and Meego and concentrate on the production of smartphones based on Windows Phone.
Unfortunately, the new smartphones have not gained expected popularity, and, after a couple of years, Nokia was sold to Microsoft for $7,18 billion, together with the right to issue smartphones “Nokia” the next 10 years. And just a year ago, the Redmond company has rebranded the Lumia series, after Nokia as such has ceased to exist.