The Chronograph of Inventions

February 22

  • In 1630, popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina who brought it in deerskin bags as his contribution at their first Thanksgiving dinner.

    In 1946, Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announced his discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin, the first specific antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. For this work, he was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize. Dr. Waksman was born in Ukraine.

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  • 26.01.2012 - Arctic Cooling to sue AMD

    The maker of PSUs, Arctic Cooling, is suing AMD over the use of the Fusion name.

    Arctic has been using the Fusion brand to sell its power supply units for some time now but we would be hard pressed to find someone who could confuse a power supply with a chip that integrates x86 processing cores with Radeon stream processors on the same piece of silicon.

    Actually, come to think of it there are a few people who would confuse the two, but they are not the sort of people who would buy either products.

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