Tag: OLDEST

The world's oldest Bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, written on parchment leaves during the fourth century, has been made available for free to the public for the first time. The British Library, one of the many collaborators involved in putting the artifact on the Web, has already posted The Book of Psalms and St. Mark's Gospel online, and now more than 800 pages of the original 1,460 book are ...

A woman in England has been using the same pacemaker for over 25 years. According to Guiness World Records, it is the longest lasting pacemaker in the world. Leslie Iles, from Essex, England, had the pacemaker implanted after repeatedly fainting and falling. After a series of tests, doctors realized that her heart was beating a mere 30 times a minute. That is half of a normal heart rate. Most ...

Computer-based music had its humble beginnings, it turns out, as a rather tuneless scratchy recording of a melody featuring 'God Save the King,' 'Baa Baa Black Sheep,' and 'In the Mood' performed by a Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially available general purpose computer. The performance was recorded in 1951, six years earlier than the previous oldest recording of computer music, performed ...