Why was the pager invented? Detailed answer

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Why was the pager invented?

When about half a century ago, the American radio engineer Al Gross invented the pager, he intended this device to urgently call hospital doctors to patients.

But it turned out that the doctors did not want to be called to intensive care at any time. One doctor bluntly said to the inventor: "There is a golf course next to the hospital, do you really think that I would like to be constantly torn off the club?"

In 2001, there were approximately 300 million pagers in operation worldwide.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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What famous Russian painting was inspired by bullfighting?

Ilya Repin was inspired to create the painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581" by several events. The first is the assassination of Tsar Alexander II from a bomb explosion, the second is Repin's visit to the concert of Rimsky-Korsakov in the same year, where he was impressed by the music of the Antar symphonic suite and wanted to convey this mood on canvas. And the final stimulus for the artist was a visit to a bullfight in Spain, after which he wrote in his diary: “Misfortunes, living death, murders and blood make up an attracting force ... And I, having probably become infected with this bloodiness, upon arrival home, now started the bloody scene."

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