The TTL output stage is a rather complicated pushâpull circuit known as a totem-pole output (the transistors, diode, and resistor in the right-most slice of this TTL logic gate circuit). It sinks currents better than it sources current.
The theory for spontaneous generation refers to the idea that life can produced from nonliving things. Lazzaro Spallanzani proposed in his experiement that air was necessary for spontaneous generation.
Fra' Girolamo Savonarola was a firebrand preacher, the Mad Monk who briefly turned Florence into a theocracy and church-run police state and who started the original bonfire of the vanities.