Fascinating website about the Nurflügel airplanes developed by the Horten Brothers, Lippisch, Northrop and others. History, technical papers, photos, articles.

... die geschrieben wurde, widmet sich der Text im PreText Magazine. Mal sehen, ob es “QWERTYIOP” in die Geschichtsbücher schafft... Technisch etwas ausführlicher beschreibt Tom Van Vleck The History of Electronic Mail. Dort ist auch der Link zu der Website von Ray Tomlinson mit weiteren Informationen zu finden. [via netbib]

» In their contribution to this conference, BAI Shangshu and Li Di have reported about their rediscovery of ten calculating devices from the late 17th and/or early 18th century in the Beijing Palace Museum. They did outstanding research work on the structures and functions, the origins and manufacturingof their discoveries, which are a real treasure in the world - wide history of
mechanical computing.«

Calculating Machines in China and Europe in the 17th Century
-The Western View von Klaus-D. Graf