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    AEROPHORE
    January 12, 1875 - U.S.A.

    The aerophore, an apparatus to enable a person to enter a noxious, inflammable atmosphere, was successfully tested at Chatham, 12-14 Jan 1875. Invented by Louis Denayrouze, a naval lieutenant, it comprised an air-pump, lamp, and flexible tubing*. Air in cylinders at a pressure of 300-350 lb/in2, reduced through a valve to atmospheric pressure, supported respiration. The apparatus was heavy and unmanageable for more than an hour's supply. He and Benoit Rouquayrol, a French mining engineer, had patented an underwater aerophore (1865), a steel tank filled with compressed air carried on a diver's back, connected through valves to a mouthpiece. It was the predecessor of contemporary scuba equipment.

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    January 12, 1937 - First transatlantic cable, U.S.A.

    The first U.S. patent for a submarine cable plow was issued. It was designed to feed a cable at the same time that it would dig a trench in the ocean bed. The device could be used at depths up to a half mile. The first transatlantic cable of high-speed formally was buried on 14 Jun 1938. The inventors were Chester S. Lawton of Ridgewood, N.J., and Capt. Melville H. Bloomer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They assigned the patent to the Western Union Telegraph Co. (No. 2,607,717).

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The article focuses on Microsoft Office Word developed by Microsoft Ltd. It also covers the history of development, highlights its importance in everyday use as well as introduces the 2010 version.

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The speedily growing competition and advanced IT technologies have made marketers pay attention to efficiency and proficiency of all work processes. As a result, there have been introduced diverse programmes to optimize companies' work. Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used file formats. Microsoft Word is a word processing application designed for creation of documents, for instance resumes, newsletters, fax cover sheets, audit reports, legal documents, brochures, instruction manuals and more.

Microsoft Word is frequently deployed by companies, community agencies, and can be found in most schools and colleges. Students deploy it daily and business people use it for creating office documents. The Word was introduced by Microsoft Ltd. It was invented under the name Multi-Tool Word. The first addition was launchedin the 1980s. Since that time, there have been developed several other versions, including the latest version that appeared in 2008. The next addition of Word is thought to be introduced in the coming 2010. It will include many new features common to other programmes in the Office 2010. The 2010 version will have new WordArt styles and effects supplanting the old ones.

Although Word is a constituent of the Microsoft Office system, it is also sold as a standalone software package and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the branding was altered to emphasise Word's identity as a constituent within the Office Suite. Microsoft Ltd. Renamed Microsoft Word into Microsoft Office Word.
The application allows users to type, format and modify text to be printed out or viewed electronically. The Word Format is a low-cost word processing program. The application offers a large number of tools and features, and many users are familiar and comfortable with its Microsoft toolbars.

Microsoft Word offers tools to format fonts, add clipart, add page numbers, and create tables and headers. Word's file formats are denoted either by a. doc or. docx file extension. The newer ".docx" extension denotes the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is deployed by Word 2007 for Windows, Word 2008 for the Macintosh.

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