Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. ... In terms of the value of production, fuel minerals far exceed all others combined. ... the Tata Iron and Steel Company (Tata Steel), at Jamshedpur (production began in 1911), is among the largest and most successful producers.

Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s ... deformation—shrinking, stretching, and folding, but not tearing. The continuous development of topology dates from 1911, when the ... and excavations. It also has an exercise on circular enclosures with an implied value of π = 3. The contractor for King ...

In 1913 Hooper brought out The Britannica Year-Book, edited by Chisholm. It bore the imprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited, London, and the Encyclopædia Britannica Company, New York. It was not, strictly speaking, a yearbook, as it covered two years, 1911 and 1912, beginning with a diary of events for both.

Nov 01, 2022 · retailing, the selling of merchandise and certain services to consumers. It ordinarily involves the selling of individual units or small lots to large numbers of customers by a business set up for that specific purpose. In the broadest sense, retailing can be said to have begun the first time one item of value was bartered for another. In the more restricted sense of …

Oct 10, 2022 · In 1911 a vertex-to-vertex movement along edges of a polyhedron (as is done in the simplex method) was suggested as a way to solve a problem that involved optimization, and in 1941 movement along edges was proposed for a problem involving transportation. Credit for laying much of the mathematical foundations should probably go to von Neumann.

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz.The name comes from the Koine Greek αμέθυστος amethystos from α- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω (Ancient Greek) methysko / μεθώ metho (Modern Greek), "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. Ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would …

Oct 10, 2022 · Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5 to 10 percent of cases of diabetes. Most cases of type 1 diabetes develop in children or adolescents, but about 20 percent of new patients are adults.The frequency of type 1 diabetes varies widely in different countries, from less than 1 case per 100,000 people per year in China and parts of South America to more than 20 cases …

100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning. Go ahead. Ask. We won’t mind. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. Learn about ...

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", …

Oct 14, 2022 · Alfred Binet, (born July 8, 1857, Nice, France—died October 18, 1911, Paris), French psychologist who played a dominant role in the development of experimental psychology in France and who made fundamental contributions to the measurement of intelligence. Fascinated by the work of the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot on hypnosis at the Salpêtrière …