The Apollo program was designed to make history; land a man on the moon for the first time. It was a race to the moon involving Americans and Russians. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him sa...
In this modern age of cell phones and palm pilots we often find ourselves relying on technology to make it though the day. ... His name was Nikola Telsa and by 1900 he held over 100 patents on everything from the x-ray to the remote control. ...
I. Introduction Defining the Process Within the airline travel industry, a common process that a majority of passengers encounter is the luggage claim process at the beginning and end of their trip. Most people are familiar with a check-in at the ticket counter, the handing over of luggage, and a final pickup when it's over. As a team we decided to choose an event that is familiar to all persons, such as the luggage claim business process, yet complex in its entirety. Our team will evaluate this process within the American Airlines organization located at the Miami International Ai...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000: Conductive polymers Contents Prize motivation 1 Conductive polymers - a surprising discovery 1 What is electrical conductivity? 2 What makes a material conductive? 3 Conductive polymers - the story 4 Applications of conductive polymers 5 Synthesis and processing 6 Mechanism of polymer conductivity - role of doping 6 Molecular electron-transfer theory 11 Electroluminescent polymers - second-generation conductive polymers 13 From silicon physics to molecular electronics 14 References and further reading 15 Prize motivation The Royal Swedish A...
