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Rockets are used for fireworks and weaponry, as launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight and exploration of other planets. While inefficient for low speed use, they are, compared to other propulsion systems, very lightweight and powerful, capable of attaining extremely high speeds with reasonable efficiency and accuracy
- July 30: Apple releases new Magic Trackpad, updated iMacs and Mac Pros
- July 29: Oldest user of Twitter, Ivy Bean, dies at 104
- July 27: Google Android smartphone sales triple in the UK this year
- July 27: Wikileaks release Afghan "war logs" in co-operation with mainstream media
- July 22: Facebook reaches 500 million users
- July 21: Astronomers discover largest star on record
- July 20: Turkish protesters march against Internet censorship
- July 17: Fire strikes Slovak Academy of Sciences
- July 17: Apple to give free cases, refunds to iPhone 4 owners
- July 16: Researchers discover last common ancestor of apes and monkeys
- ... that both the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser design ideas descended from the Mosaic web browser?
- ... that a coherer, hot wire barretter, electrolytic detector, cat's whisker and vacuum tube were all types of radio detectors?
- ... that in 2008 Hewlett-Packard created a prototype of the theoretical fourth and last passive circuit element, the memristor, that may one day revolutionize electronics, although the theory was devised in 1971?
- ... that a mercury arc rectifier converts alternating current to direct current by means of an electric arc through mercury vapor?
- ... that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
- ... that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
- ... that the intensity of a tropical cyclone (pictured) is usually determined by the Dvorak technique using only visible and infrared satellite images?
- ... that the technique of double-balloon enteroscopy allows any position along the gastrointestinal tract to be visualized in real-time?
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