Manufacturers count in powers of 10: 1 TB = 1 trillion bytes. But some operating systems, such as Windows, count in powers of 2, where “1 GB” means 1,073,741,824 bytes. The result: your drive shows about 931 GB. To end the confusion, official units such as the kibibyte and gibibyte have existed since 1998, but they remain little known.
In 1843, inventor Alexander Bain patented a way to send images over telegraph wires using synchronized pendulums. By the 1860s, a commercial fax service was already linking cities. The telephone wasn't patented until 1876, more than three decades after that first fax patent. The fax is really a child of the telegraph age.
On 8 October 1958, in Stockholm, 43-year-old Arne Larsson received the very first implanted pacemaker. The device, designed by engineer Rune Elmqvist and implanted by surgeon Åke Senning, worked for only a few hours and had to be replaced. Larsson went on to receive more than twenty pacemakers in his lifetime. He died in 2001 aged 86, outliving both the engineer and the surgeon.