Today, noticed that the wikipedia article on this is pretty good, but most especially nice is that it cites an 1868 Royal Society paper from the Royal Society by James Clerk Maxwell, which not only mentions Mr Watt's Steam Engine, but Mr J Thomson's experiments (noting that our building is between JJ Thomson Avenue and James Clerk Maxwell Road:)
Next week, we should cover
Scheduling
Switching
Shared Media Access
[The paper above also mentions a Mr Siemens!]
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