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Edison: The Nickel Iron battery invented 120 years ago

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Nickel Iron battery invented 120 years ago BBC Original Note: By Allison Hirschlag23rd – February 2021 At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own. Traveling down a gravelly road in West Orange, New Jersey, an electric car sped by pedestrians, some clearly surprised by the vehicle’s roomy interior. It travelled at twice the speed of the more conventional …

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Alexa Ideal device for the blind – Read Kindle Books

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Alexa Books, Ideal device for the blind

For blind or visually impaired travelers

You can ask Alexa to read eligible Kindle books in your library.

 Alexa can read Kindle books that support Text-to-Speech technology used for Wikipedia articles, news articles, and calendar events.

The Amazon Echo, the Amazon devices that make up its voice assistant Alexa, will now be able to read the books that are purchased for the Kindle eReader. This new version of the internal software of this device allows with the command “Alexa, read [a book from the Kindle library]” begin to hear the synthesized voice reading that book.

Alexa books - Amazon echo book
Alexa books – Amazon echo book


What else can you do?

Amazon’s voice assistant allows you to read and pause in the book as well as go forward or backward in reading. Continue with that reading with synthesized voice where we left it to be able to complete the process at our pace.

Alexa books: Can Alexa read books?

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Acadia National Park, Maine

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Acadia National Park East of the Mississippi River, off the Atlantic coast of Maine, lies Acadia National Park. It is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, in addition to Cadillac Mountain, the highest on the American Atlantic coast. Hiking on the granite peaks or cycling are the most common practices for visitors. In 2019 there were 2.6 million people.     Acadia National Park Pics What are the Carriages of Acadia? John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated 10,000 …

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Thomas Cook & Son in the History of Tourism

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Thomas Cook and The first Organized Tourist Trip

Thomas Cook & Son History of Tourism. The founder grew up in a Baptist family and was a fervent believer, both traveling through his region as a missionary. I work as a cabinetmaker to earn money. Influenced by his experience as a missionary, he decided to be a teetotaler at age 25. He attributed part of the great social problems of the moment to alcohol consumption.

In a way, his participation in the anti-alcohol league helped him in his work success, since his first organized trip was for a group of 500 teetotalers in 1841, from Leicester to Loughborough, a distance of 11 miles. They paid a shilling each approximately U$S 3.05 today

Thomas Cook & Son History of Tourism. The founder grew up in a Baptist family and was a fervent believer, both traveling through his region as a missionary. I work as a cabinetmaker to earn money. Influenced by his experience as a missionary, he decided to be a teetotaler at age 25. He attributed part of the great social problems of the moment to alcohol consumption.
Thomas Cook & Son – History of Tourism

Trip to the International exhibition in Paris

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US Department State Travel Advisory 2022

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US Department State Travel Advisory:Travel the world without stress Global travel has increased: the number of international tourists became. Many people see travel as a way to relieve stress, it turns out that Reality shows you otherwise. And so, at the end of the speech they end up more stressed than when they started.     Right I nformation  The most common stressful travel experience was related to pre-trip problems and planning. These include packing, concerns about finances, making travel …

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