Within the navies of the world, an assortment of ships make up the fleet. From tankers and supply ships to cruisers and aircraft carriers, navies are composed of a lot of different kinds of vessels. Unsurprisingly, itâs the big ships that tend to get all the attention.
ITS FOUNDER PIONEERED THE DRIVE-THRU. Robert O. Peterson opened the first Jack in the Box restaurant in San Diego, Calif. in 1951 by converting one location of his Oscarâs restaurant chain into a new animal altogether: a drive-thru hamburger stand.
The first cordless mouse was shipped in September, 1984, with the Metaphor computer (see the nearby image) of David Liddle and Donald Massaro, former Xerox PARC engineers.evices like the light pen simply took too much time, by repeatedly requiring the user to pick up the pointer, and reach all the way to the screen, which was very tiresome. In 1964, the first prototype of computer mouse was made (see the nearby photo) to use with a graphical user interface (GUI), 'windows'.