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The History of Phones

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                                                      History of Phones   Phones have become extremely integrated into our society. At this point it is an expectation that every person over 16 has an I-Phone . Heck, even in Clarke you need your phone to RSVP and get into events. It makes you wonder; how did we even get here?     How did it start?   The telephone was first invented in 1849 by Antonio Meucci. However, he never successfully patented the invention. Later in 1854 Charles Boursel also made a primitive telephone . Eventually Alexander Graham Bell secured the patent for the telephone in 18 7 6. He also later won the US patent for the telephone and is also now widely considered to be the father of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone was comprised of a transmitter and receiver . The transmitter was a cylinder with a needle that was connected to the receiver by wi re. What I found shocking was that while Graham Bell holds the first US patent for the p
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New Unity Tax

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  New Unity Tax     What is Unity?   If you are not familiar with game development Unity is a very popular game development software . It is by far the most used game development engine for small scale programmers and companies. Unity is a cross platform engine that was originally made in June 2005. It has slowly expanded from computer to phone, and now even VR support. It’s behind many popular games you have probably heard of such as among us and Pokémon go. It allows you to code in C# which is one of the easier programing languages. Not only that but it gives you a huge amount of freedom to de s ign 3D objects without needing to code at all.     What’s changed?   For nearly a decade, the CEO of Unity has been John Riccitiello . For most of his career John Riccitiello has been in high positions of management . Early on he served as managers for Clorox, PepsiCo, and Grand Metropolitan. He also served as CEO for Wilton Sporting Goods and
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