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18 Cards in this Set
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Malcolm Mclean |
He played a central role in contanerization and making it a reality. He created stackable containers and did a trial run called Ideal X, which was a ship that went from Newark to Houston. |
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Walmart |
It was created by Sam Walton in 1962. Based their success on being a distribution company that uses the UPC and satellties to have control over supplies, and determine what customes buy the most of. |
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"As we May think" |
It is a article in Life magazine written by Vannevar Bush. Bush see a problem with the growth of science and information, without giving us a new way to absorb information. |
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"Spacewars" |
A article that discusses the race between Arpanet and Dynabook. The social group depicted in the article are less formal and do not like the advanced technologies. |
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Herman Hollerith |
He suggested the punch card system for jobs. He used the paradigm of the railroad ticket.He created the company IBM. |
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Linear Model Of Research |
Vannevar bush believed that science leads to new technology. Companies have a separate research labs for scienties to allow for them to just work on research. |
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Elasticity of demand for electronics |
The computers were used by scientists for huge calculation and research. People believed that they were only needed by a few people in society, like scientists. |
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Bell Labs |
The labs were located in New Jersey and was to fund research to improve phone service. The Bell company was willing to fund a long term research project using the linear model. The ATT was a government controlled monopoly. |
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William Shockley |
He was a physicst Phd from MIT that was apart of the Bell labs. He was a theoretical physicts. |
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Silicon Valley |
A city that is a network of entreupeunarial capitalism. It becomes the home of top companies like IBM. It destroyed the idea that engineers are supposed to stay with one company their whole life. |
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Moore's Law |
The number of transitors on the most cost effective integrated circuit to manufacture doubles every year. |
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Levittown |
A suburb on Long Island that applied the Model T principle to housing. It produced many low-cost identical houses using mass production techniques. |
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Cameron Village |
The first shopping center in the southeast it was created in 1949. It was a one stop shop for customers and all the stores they needed to go to was in one place. |
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McDonald's |
It was founded by the McDonald's brothers in Southern California. They used the mass production model to make food into a business chain. |
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Erie Canal |
The canal was started in 1817 but was completed in 1825. It connected Buffalo and the Great Lakes to Albany. It shows that even though canals are expensive they can be done. |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Railroad |
Lincoln was a Railroad lawyer that fought against railroads paying extra in taxes. He won the case against McLean County, and the railroads didn't have to pay extra county taxes. |
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William Burrow's Potatoes |
They used the railroad system to transport their potatoe products and had to fight against extra taxes from the county and state. |
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Samuel Morse |
He creates the Morse code for the government. He forms a partnership with Vail and Gale to contain a government grant for the military. |
