When the five musicians arrived at the new studio of Victor Talking Machine Co.

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Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was sold to Rockwell International.

FORBES: Indestructible

Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was eventually sold to Rockwell International.

FORBES: Indestructible

The old linear accelerator at Stanford was repurposed, turning it from the machine that co-discovered a particle known as the charm quark (thus winning its operators a Nobel prize) into a factory for making particles called B mesons.

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But Mr Putin's publicity machine managed to co-opt even this, when the prime minister personally responded to one expletive-loaded post.

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Epworth, whose list of clients includes U2, Plan B, Cee-Lo, and Primal Scream, won the producer of the year award in 2010, after co-producing Florence and the Machine's debut album, Lungs.

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There's no question this vintage machine will quickly make any college co-ed a dorm favorite.

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In moments of hopeful fantasy, they imagine this wonderful machine serving Europe as the strong arm of a perfectly co-ordinated common foreign and security policy.

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In 1984, Andrew along with Burt Alperson and myself, co-authored a book, The Fully Powered PC that reflected our enthusiasm for tinkering and improving the machine.

FORBES: Award Ceremony to Honor Students and Remember PC and Mac Pioneer Andrew Fluegelman