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51Player piano — The player piano is a self playing piano, containing a pneumatic mechanism that plays on the piano action pre programmed music via perforated paper rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass produced piano in the house and …
52Historical ecology — is a research program that focuses on the intermingling of people and the environments in which they live. Rather than just looking at a quick snapshot, historical ecology involves studying and understanding this relationship in both time and… …
53Synthesizer — For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). Synth redirects here. For other uses, see Synth (disambiguation). See also: Software synthesizer Early Minimoog by R.A. Moog Inc. (ca. 1970) A synthesizer (often abbreviated synth ) is an… …
54Epidural — This article is about the anaesthetic technique. For the anatomical site, see Epidural space. For other uses, see Epidural (disambiguation). Did you mean Epidural hematoma, a type of traumatic brain injury? Epidural Intervention …
55Universal remote — A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. Low end universal remotes can only control a set number of devices determined by their manufacturer,… …
56Telepods — are fictional teleportation devices featured in the 1986 film The Fly and its 1989 sequel, The Fly II . The teleportation system in the original 1958 version of The Fly was referred to as a Distintegrator Integrator , and resembled two high tech… …
57List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens — This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, including Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K 9. It covers alien races and other fictional creatures,… …
58HAL-9000 — The computer known as HAL controlled the operations of the spaceship Discovery 1 in STANLEY KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968). Released a year before the first moon landing, the film presents a fully realized version of outer space, and… …
59Operating system — Operating systems …
60Digital electronics — Main articles: Electronics and Electronic circuit Digital electronics represent signals by discrete bands of analog levels, rather than by a continuous range. All levels within a band represent the same signal state. Relatively small changes to… …
