This task is so complicated that it requires an ISstaff member to register each end-user machine, says James Mascaro, network architect for Xcelerate, an e-business consultancy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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In hopes of uncovering more about the effects of glaciers on the ocean floor, as well as details about the living creatures that inhabit said areas, UK scientists are carting the machine aboard the RSS James Clark Ross as they head for the Marguerite Bay area on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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In 1764, English carpenter James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, a machine that spun multiple threads of yarn at once, increasing production eight-fold.

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Cigarette sales surged again with the introduction of the "White Burley" tobacco leaf and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine, sponsored by tobacco baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late 1880s.

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