* Williams tube

Two alternatives to the delay line, the Williams tube and Selectron tube, originated in 1946, both using electron beams in glass tubes as means of storage.

Using cathode ray tubes, Fred Williams would invent the Williams tube, which would be the first random access computer memory.

The Williams tube would prove more capacious than the Selectron tube ( the Selectron was limited to 256 bits, while the Williams tube could store thousands ) and less expensive.

The machine was not intended to be a practical computer but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, an early form of computer memory.

The Williams tube, better called the Williams-Kilburn tube ( after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn ), developed in 1946 and 1947, was a cathode ray tube used as a computer memory to electronically store binary data.

The Williams tube depends on an effect called secondary emission.

Each Williams tube could store about 512 – 1024 bits of data.

In fact, rather than the Williams tube memory being designed for the SSEM, the SSEM was a testbed to demonstrate the reliability of the memory.

The Williams tube tended to become unreliable with age, and most working installations had to be " tuned " by hand.

Some early computers in the USA also used the Williams tube, including the IAS machine ( originally designed for Selectron tube memory ), the UNIVAC 1103, Whirlwind, IBM 701, IBM 702 and the Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ).

Many local citizens feared that there would be irregularities at the polls, and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun and promised an orderly election.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

In line with the suggestion of the Windsor Report, Williams has recently established a working group to examine the feasibility of an Anglican covenant which would articulate the conditions for communion in some fashion.

On 18 March 2012, Rowan Williams announced he would be stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of 2012.

Johnson would be dealt along with Johnny Oates to the Atlanta Braves for catcher and 1971 National League Rookie of the Year Earl Williams.

Although Williams would hit 63 home runs in two seasons with Atlanta, he would only hit 36 homers in two seasons with the Orioles.

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

The race was won by " Williams " ( pseudonym of William Grover-Williams ) driving a Bugatti Type 35B painted dark green ( what would erroneously become referred to as British racing green ).

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

Siege's goal was maximum velocity: " We would listen to the fastest punk and hardcore bands we could find and say, ' Okay, we're gonna deliberately write something that is faster than them '", drummer Robert Williams recalled.

After Williams died in 1761, Middleton would go on to marry twice more, second to Maria Henrietta Bull and third to Mary McKenzie, but he would not have more children.

Weissmuller would later, upon moving to the prosperous Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California, ( specifically to an area known today as East Gate Bel Air ), famously commission architect Paul Williams to design a large home with a 300-foot serpentine swimming pool that curled around the house ( and which still exists to this day ).

Williams signed a baseball for him which predicted that the young catcher would be " A Hall of Famer for sure!

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

They would field eight All-Stars ( manager Dick Williams, Tony Gwynn, Graig Nettles, Rich Gossage, Terry Kennedy, Garry Templeton, Steve Garvey, and La Marr Hoyt ) at the 1985 All-Star Game in Minnesota.

Huw Owen Williams ( 13 July 1886, Caernarvon – 28 June 1961 ), who wrote as Huw Menai, was a Welsh poet, a Welsh-language speaker who nevertheless wrote only in the English language.

: Beginn at a point on the eastern bank of the Coosa river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee nation crosses the same ; running from thence down the said Coosa river with its eastern bank according to its various meanders to a point one mile above the mouth of Cedar creek, at Fort Williams, thence east two miles, thence south two miles, thence west to the eastern bank of the said Coosa river, thence down the eastern bank thereof according to its various meanders to a point opposite the upper end of the great falls, ( called by the natives Woetumka ,) thence east from a true meridian line to a point due north of the mouth of Ofucshee, thence south by a like meridian line to the mouth of Ofucshee on the south side of the Tallapoosa river, thence up the same, according to its various meanders, to a point where a direct course will cross the same at the distance of ten miles from the mouth thereof, thence a direct line to the mouth of Summochico creek, which empties into the Chatahouchie river on the east side thereof below the Eufaulau town, thence east from a true meridian line to a point which shall intersect the line now dividing the lands claimed by the said Creek nation from those claimed and owned by the state of Georgia: Provided, nevertheless, that where any possession of any chief or warrior of the Creek nation, who shall have been friendly to the United States during the war and taken an active part therein, shall be within the territory ceded by these articles to the United States, every such person shall be entitled to a reservation of land within the said territory of one mile square, to include his improvements as near the centre thereof as may be, which shall inure to the said chief or warrior, and his descendants, so long as he or they shall continue to occupy the same, who shall be protected by and subject to the laws of the United States ; but upon the voluntary abandonment thereof, by such possessor or his descendants, the right of occupancy or possession of said lands shall devolve to the United States, and be identified with the right of property ceded hereby.

In Nix v. Williams,, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally seized without a search warrant is admissible if the prosecution can prove the evidence would have been found and seized by legal means not based on evidence or information illegally seized.

With Hill already under contract for 1996, his place at the team was secure for one more season, but it would prove to be his last at Williams.

Robie's plan is to prove his innocence by catching the new cat burglar in the act, so he enlists the aid of an insurance man of Bertani's acquaintance, H. H. Hughson ( John Williams ), an Englishman who reluctantly obtains a list of the most expensive jewels currently on the Riviera.

Alan Jones won the 1980 race for Williams, in what would prove to be the final USGP at the Glen.

In 2002, Williams was left fighting for podiums as Ferrari's domination prove to be unstoppable during the season.

Williams and Zukofsky were to maintain a lifelong personal and creative relationship which was to prove important for both men.

The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine ( SSEM ) was designed to prove that the Williams tube was a practical storage device, by testing that data held within it could be continuously updated at the speed necessary for use in a computer.

In 1996 Williams played and lost a best of 3 match to Ronnie O ' Sullivan in order for O ' Sullivan to prove that he was suitably skilled to play professional matches left handed.

With negotiations at a standstill, the Buccaneers traded the following season's first-round draft pick to the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for Jack Thompson, a backup quarterback who had been unable to unseat Ken Anderson, as an insurance policy should Williams prove impossible to sign, or have trouble recovering from offseason knee surgery.

This argument was later rejected by the judge on the grounds that Williams could not prove that Romanowski had actually used steroids on the same day as the attack.

Williams was quoted as saying he and his lawyers " just wanted to prove what was right and wrong about football ".

Jett knew she was adopted, but she did not learn who her biological parents were until the early 1980s Although Hank Williams had executed a custody agreement three months before her birth that gave him custody of his unborn daughter, she was forced to go to extreme lengths to prove the relationship and be recognized as Williams ' daughter.

Upon forming their alliance, Steiner and Khan put Williams through numerous initiations to prove himself worthy of their team.

When captured, Starr tells the pirate leader, Captain Anton, that his name is Williams ( his alias from David Starr, Space Ranger ), and offers to join the pirates ; whereupon Anton has Starr fight a duel in open space to prove himself worthy.

Harry and Skip are visited by Garber, along with his cousin Meredith ( JoBeth Williams ), who is fighting to prove their innocence.

* Also in 2007, Mason was involved in a nightclub altercation with the out-spoken Richie Williams, who Mason claimed shows no respect to the older players in the NRL and is a cocky kid who has yet to prove himself in the NRL.