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Hace 8 horas · Bell's 1893 Volta Bureau building in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.. In 1880, when the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs for the invention of the telephone (equivalent to about US$10,000 at the time, or about $330,000 now), [2] he used the award to fund the Volta Laboratory (also known as the "Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory") in Washington, D.C ...
Hace 8 horas · John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) [1] was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the ...
Hace 8 horas · Frank Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist ...
Hace 8 horas · The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.It is commonly kept as a house pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat avoiding human ...
Hace 8 horas · Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its ...
Hace 1 día · Chelmsford (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ l m z f ər d /) is a city [a] in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England.It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Colchester and Southend-on-Sea.It is located 30 miles (50 kilometres) north-east of London at Charing Cross and 22 miles (35 kilometres) south-west of Colchester.
Hace 1 día · Maize / m eɪ z / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte.Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.The leafy stalk of the plant gives rise to male inflorescences or tassels which ...
