Ancient Egypt 1
This is the practice of embalming and wrapping of the human body for preservation
mummification
This organ was left intact while other internal organs were removed
heart
This is the type of wax that was usually used in these types of portraits
beeswax
This is the number of years between each tabulation of the US census
10
He became the Computer-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) company's president in 1914, and changed the company's name to IBM in 1924
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
This is what Ancient Egyptians called the land of the dead
Kingdom of Osiris
Ancient Egyptian corpses were wrapped in this type of fabric
linen
This facial feature of the youth indicates this young man's coming-of-age status
(emerging moustache)
Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine was inspired by this novelty musical instrument
organette
Between 1928 and 1931, MIT professor Vannevar Bush created a machine to solve this type of mathematical equation
differential equation
Elaborately decorated coffins are also known as this
sarcophagus (sarcophagi)
A dead person's soul would enter this object, which was buried with the body in case the body did not last
portrait
The youth portrait is an example of a hybrid art form, one that blends Egyptian traditions with the traditions of this civilization
(Greco-)Romans
Virtually all English-language keyboards use this type of alphabetical layout
QWERTY
This heavy, noisy machine that was compared to "a roomful of ladies knitting" was named this
Mark I
Ancient Egyptians used this word to refer to the soul
ka
The stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines were placed in these types of jars
canopic jars
The best evidence for encaustic portraits comes from this region of Egypt
Fayum (or Faiyum)
This is the name of Dorr E. Felt's mechanical calculator
the Comptometer
Early computing machines lacked the ability to perform this, what programmers now refer to as "if/then" statements
conditional branching
This is the number of days involved with embalming a corpse
72
A natural compound of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate found in Egypt is known as this
natron
This is the Egyptian god of death
Anubis
In 1927, the Remington Typewriter Company merged with this well-established producer of document storage and retrieval systems
Rand (Kardex)
Rather than using decimal arithmetic, Konrad Zuse's machines used this type of arithmetic
binary