I've been a Mac user since 1986. I plunked down about five grand for a Mac II with a 13" monitor that awed everyone who looked at the floating balls in living color on the monitor's start-up screen. Steve Jobs…
I've been a Mac user since 1986. I plunked down about five grand for a Mac II with a 13" monitor that awed everyone who looked at the floating balls in living color on the monitor's start-up screen. Steve Jobs…
Last year I visited the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in New Jersey with my college roommate friend and my two teenage boys. In it are Edison’s home, laboratories and factory where the Genius of Menlo Park changed technology and…
The writing of my book How Instrumentation Works has been the driving force behind most of the blog entries. I have been pleasantly surprised that a fair number of people have actually read the entries. After all, I have yet…
Just about everyone I know has either read the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson or has seen the movie. And it seems that just about every company that makes something wants to be like Apple and introduce the next…
I purchased Aquametrix over 3 years ago because of the reputation of the company for making probes that, as we like to say, are "rugged and reliable." That claim is still central to our marketing message. I believe it to…
... is to write a book. No doubt you already know that, if you want to insure that you understand technical material, then there is no better way to do so than to teach it to someone else. But writing…
I always wanted to walk into a cocktail party and nonchalantly toss off the phrase "I have a book deal" or "Excuse me. I have to take this call. It's my editor." I drive a Volkswagen so status symbols normally…
It's the most common, the oldest and the simplest measurement made in all of electrochemical measurements. And yet, I have found that almost no one understands how the humble pH probe works. I don't mean the measuring circuit that comes…
I'm old enough to remember how a rotary phone worked and brilliant enough to know that it is never coming back. The electronics in my cell phone shrinks with every passing year AND it gets more powerful. I still stare…
