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The name Ferranti has been notorious in electrical engineering history until Ferranti International P.L.C. finally went bankrupt in 1993, after having experienced over a century of business. This article will reveal the achievements of a very important player in the Current War, although he did not appear in many of the media at the time. Ferranti was less a man of drama, he rather let his inventions speak for themselves. ...

On the 18th of May, Scintilla went on an excursion to Innovatie Cluster Drachten or ICD for short. ICD is a collaboration project between various technical companies in the north of the Netherlands. On 8:30 we departed from the Spiegel by bus to Drenthe to go to Astron. In the bus it was clearly noticeable that some people had a little too much to drink the last day, so fortunately for them they had some time to sleep in the bus. ...

Chess is considered one of the world’s oldest games, at least of the games that are still played today. It is said to have originated from ancient India and dates back to around 600AD. Since then, the game has evolved to the version we know today. The world evolved too and inventions such as the transistor were made. Partially, the transistor was a useful development for chess as it gave rise to epic chess computers, but is was not the most useful development for chess of the past 14 centuries. ...