TinyURL is a URL shortening service, a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 so that he would be able to link directly to newsgroup postings that frequently had long and cumbersome addresses.or each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL such as http://tinyurl.com/2unsh in the following page. If the URL has already been requested, TinyURL will return the existing alias rather than create a duplicate entry. The short URL forwards users to the long URL.
Read on; the answers are at the end of the column. Among Thomas Jefferson s inventions were such devices as a macaroni machine that he invented in 1787, the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow and the cipher wheel, which was an ingenious way to allow people to code and decode messages.
By: Jonathan Ramsey Gipson. The Invention. Thomas Jennings' patent was for a dry-cleaning process called dry scouring. Today, even though a great majority of America now has washers and dryers at home, Thomas L. Jennings was the inventor of Dry Cleaning. A little biography about Thomas L. Jennings Thomas L. Jennings was an African-American tradesman (a person involved with trading) and abolitionist(a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution). He was a free black who operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City, New York, and was the first African American to be granted a patent