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Anthony McLeod Kennedy was born on 23rd July 1936, in a then little-known-about town of Sacramento, California (White, 2007). His father, Anthony J. Kennedy, was a dock worker who progressed…

2But Seldon, while he did not forget Amaryl’s warning, did not think of it with any great degree of concentration. His fortieth birthday came and went-with the usual psychological blow….

Automotive History Why is it called an automobile? Or now a car? Why isn’t it called anything else? Oliver Evens applied for a U.S. patent in Philadelphia in 1792 on…

Part IEto Demerzel DEMERZEL, ETO-… While there is no question that Eto Demerzel was the real power in the government during much of the reign of Emperor Cleon I, historians…

INTRODUCTION Virtual memory refers to an imaginary set of locations, or addresses, where you can store data. It is imaginary in the sense that the memory area is not the…

There was not a word to be said. The echoes of the blast rolled away into the outer rooms and rumbled downward into a hoarse, dying whisper. Before its death,…

After that there were only two weeks left to the life of Ebling Mis.And in those two weeks, Bayta was with him three times. The first time was on the…

The thin life of Trantor trickled to nothing when they entered among the wide-spaced buildings of the University grounds. There was a solemn and lonely silence over it.The strangers of…

Over the past four or five decades, and especially in recent years, there has been a lot of talk among the scientific community and in everyday life about the development…

The location of an objective upon the great world of Trantor presents a problem unique in the Galaxy. There are no continents or oceans to locate from a thousand miles…

Imagine filling your tank with a garden hose, driving 5000 kilometers, and then stopping for a drink out of your tailpipe! This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future. But how…

NEOTRANTOR The small planet of Delicass, renamed after the Great Sack, was for nearly a century, the seat of the last dynasty of the First Empire. It was a shadow…

Every day, across the world, thousands of planes take off from airports and travel great distances in short amounts of time, saving time and money for many people and businesses….

The blockade was run successfully. In the vast volume of space, not all the navies ever in existence could keep their watch in tight proximity. Given a single ship, a…

The mayor’s palace – what was once the mayor’s palace – was a looming smudge in the darkness. The city was quiet under its conquest and curfew, and the hazy…

AIRBAGS By Nathaniel Devine This paper is discussing the topic of airbags. Now everyone is saying that “oooohh, airbags are LIFESAVERS,” and others reactions are “airbags are terrible and they’re…

The lonely planet, Haven – only planet of an only sun of a Galactic Sector that trailed raggedly off into intergalactic vacuum – was under siege.In a strictly military sense,…

History of the AA5 (All American 5ive) AM tube radio Possibly the longest lived consumer electronic product design was the five tube “AC/DC” AM radio. Virtually every household had at…

There was an atmosphere about the Time Vault that just missed definition in several directions at once. It was not one of decay, for it was well-lit and well-conditioned, with…

The old 45MHz FM broadcast band In 1945 the FCC decided that FM would have to move from the established 42 – 49 megahertz pre-war band to a new band…