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Claims Backed By This Source (240 claims)

This source backs 240 claims across the atlas. As facts: 180 well-attested. Plus 60 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Articles, 237 claims: 177 well-attested, 60 general references.
  • Sources, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.

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Was the CADC Really the First Microprocessor?Watt Could Not Use a Crank, So He Used a GearWho first thought of recording sound: Scott, Cros and EdisonWho invented the light bulb: a lamp, a patent or a systemWhose microphone was it? The carbon microphone and the road to the studioWhy the Bessemer process only worked after others solved the carbon problemWhy the Reis telephone carried music but not speechWhy the Royal Commission Praised Lancelot de Mole but Could Not Reward HimWhy the Selden patent lost on appeal: Brayton engine versus Otto engine

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A day of washing and a machine with no single inventorBefore Virtual Reality Had a Name, Sutherland Called It the Sword of DamoclesBerners-Lee Backed DRM Over the Open Web Movement's ObjectionBessemer's Process Needed Two Fixes He Didn't InventClough Named the Finite Element Method, Then Chose Earthquakes Over ItDamadian Filed the Patent, but Not the Method That Won the NobelDeclarative or imperative: how infrastructure as code defines a machineFifteen patients who died before the artificial kidney workedFive Witnesses and Four Flights: How the World First Saw a Wright Machine FlyFrom a radar set to the kitchen counter: how the microwave oven shrankFrom cutting speeds to scientific management: Taylor at Bethlehem SteelFrom ether ice machines to the home appliance: how the refrigerator took shapeFrom fire lance to matchlock: how the firearm was assembledFrom freight hoists to electric liftsFrom Sweetspot to Simon: the handheld that previewed the smartphoneFrom Swiss river works to rebuilding Poland: the engineering career of Gabriel NarutowiczFrom the Edison effect to the hard vacuum triodeFrom wire telegraphy to the office fax machineGunpowder Began as Medicine and Incendiary Before It Became a WeaponHall Beat Whitney's Legend, But Never Sealed the BreechHow a 1909 Newspaper Claim Built the Myth of Mozhaysky's First FlightHow a camera trades light between aperture and shutterHow a Patent for Wing-Warping Also Covered the AileronHow a single graphite mine and a wartime blockade shaped the pencilHow Alfred Nobel tamed nitroglycerinHow Cristofori solved the hammer problemHow Deming's Quality Ideas Reached Statisticians at HomeHow the barcode went from beach sand to the supermarket checkoutNot Every Weld Melts the MetalSix Sigma Had to Be Sold Inside Motorola Before It Could SpreadThe Inventor Watson-Watt Called Radar's GrandfatherThe Inventor Who Fought Detroit Alone: Robert Kearns and the Wiper PatentThe Late Credit Behind History's First Named EngineerThe Machine He Called Pickling: How Thomas Hancock Won Britain's Rubber Patent RaceThe Ninety-Plant Survey Behind the Term Lean ProductionThe Notes That Outgrew Their Own TranslationThe Patent Fights and Prison Terms Behind Vulcanized RubberThe Patent Filed Three Weeks Before Hull's, Then AbandonedThe Patents Meucci Could Afford After the Caveat He Let LapseThe Player-Piano Trick Behind Hedy Lamarr's Frequency-Hopping PatentThe Russian abacus and the calculators that did not replace itThe Secret Memo Behind the Daventry Radar TestThe Silk Portrait That Taught Babbage to Punch CardsThe Spinneret They Would Not Let Her UseThe Telephone Patent Emile Berliner Lost to EdisonThe Vagueness Debate Behind the Minimum Viable ProductThe water-driven globe that struck the hours and then rustedThe X-Brace That Used Less Steel Than the Empire State BuildingThirty Years After the Pistols, North Went Back to Fix a Rifle's LeakTypewriter development from early machines to the shift key

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