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Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [ 1] It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back ...
Karlsruhe was the capital of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach ( Durlach: 1565–1718; Karlsruhe: 1718–1771), the Margraviate of Baden (1771–1803), the Electorate of Baden (1803–1806), the Grand Duchy of Baden (1806–1918), and the Republic of Baden (1918–1945). Its most remarkable building is Karlsruhe Palace, which was built in 1715.
Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof. / 48.99389°N 8.40056°E / 48.99389; 8.40056. Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Karlsruhe. The station is classified as a Category 1 station, [ 1] as it is a major hub where several railways connect.
t. e. The Compact Disc-Interactive ( CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips and Japanese company Sony. It was created as an extension of CDDA and CD-ROM and specified in the Green Book specifications, co-developed by Philips and Sony, to combine audio, text and ...
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. / 49.00944°N 8.41167°E / 49.00944; 8.41167. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( KIT; German: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association.
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is a German tram-train system combining tram lines in the city of Karlsruhe with railway lines in the surrounding countryside, serving the entire region of the middle upper Rhine valley and creating connections to neighbouring regions. The Stadtbahn combines an efficient urban railway in the city with an S-Bahn (suburban ...
Actor Akili McDowell, a TV actor whose credits include series "David Makes Man" and "Billions," is behind bars for his alleged killing of a 20-year-old man in Houston. McDowell, 21, was charged ...