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The Forum Killed Arkay

Post subject: Re: Remarkable men (and women)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:56 am

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The Forum Killed Arkay

Post subject: Re: Remarkable men (and women)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:58 am

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BBP wrote:

Hero of Alexandria (c. 10 AD - c. 70 AD) was a mathematician and inventor from Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He invented the world's first steam engine, the first vending machine, the first automated pipe organ, the first automatic doors, a programmable cart, and the world's first mechanical play.

Does "mechanical play" mean puppets?

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Plook

Post subject: Re: Remarkable men (and women)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:18 pm

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The Forum Killed Arkay wrote:

BBP wrote:

Does "mechanical play" mean puppets?

It was a robot hand... :mrgreen:

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just plain doug

Post subject: Re: Remarkable men (and women)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:20 pm

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Plook wrote:

The Forum Killed Arkay wrote:

BBP wrote:

Does "mechanical play" mean puppets?

It was a robot hand... :mrgreen:

Hope he didn't tell it to "Jerk it off".

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Mr_Green_Genes

Post subject: Re: Remarkable men (and women)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:14 am

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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff (March 11, 1925 – February 5, 1983) was an American physical chemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics.[1] Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry. She dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases. She originated one of the first substitution matrices, point accepted mutations (PAM). The one-letter code used for amino acids was developed by her, reflecting an attempt to reduce the size of the data files used to describe amino acid sequences in an era of punch-card computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff

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