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...Speed is a defining feature of modernity, and in 1848 technology had jacked up the speed of daily life in several quantum leaps. Photography, not yet a decade old, was still a staggering novelty--unimaginably "real" depictions of reality produced by a little machine!--and the miracle was in part a function of how fast it worked: a picture as detailed as any drawing made not in hours or days but minutes...
...been an insignificant trickle of immigrants in the early '40s, only dozens a year, increased 10 or 20 times during the middle of the decade, and then, with the Gold Rush, by more than another order of magnitude in 1849 alone. And just as the Western exodus reached full speed, American cities became true modern metropolises. In 1800, New York had only 60,000 people, but by the middle of the century, the population had grown to half a million. Filling the cities was the first tsunami of immigrants--in particular the Irish, driven to the U.S. by the famine...
...know that today's digital revolution obeys Moore's Law, the doubling of computers' microprocessing power every 18 to 24 months. I discovered a comparable dynamic operating back in the old days. With steam power and new rotary presses during the first half of the 19th century, printing speed doubled every few years, which meant many more and much cheaper newspapers with larger circulations, and new illustrated magazines. Scientific American, Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly all started between 1845 and 1857. The New York Sun, Herald, Tribune and Times were founded between...
...million lines of computer code on board, there was nothing telling the jets what to do when they crossed the International Date Line. That sent their avionics into a electronic tailspin. GPS receivers on the planes use signals from orbiting satellites to determine their location, altitude and speed, and require precise time and dates to work. "The International Date Line is the imaginary line on the Earth that separates two consecutive calendar days," the U.S. Naval Observatory says on its website. "That is, the date in the Eastern hemisphere, to the left of the line, is always one day ahead...
...Harbec tallying 67 points this season and Chu right behind her with 66. Besides the nearly identical point totals, the two share striking similarities when it comes to their styles of play. Standing at about 5’8”, both use a lethal combination of size and speed to present an imposing presence on the ice. They are the catalysts for their respective teams, acting almost like point guards in the way that they manage their offenses. While each can certainly put the puck in the net on her own, the duo’s biggest strengths...