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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Extensive research on the extractive industries of the area, and how the sources of coal, iron ore, limestone, and firebrick became the enabler of the rolling of the first iron rail in the United States, at Mount Savage, Maryland. He has a particular interest in locomotive builder Ross Winans, of Baltimore, and his unique locomotives. He also researched and wrote about local locomotive builders Paul and Millholland. He was able to visit Millholland's Victorian mansion in Cumberland, and photographed the T.H. Paul works in Frostburg, before it was torn down.In his color photographic books on the Western Maryland and CSX Railroads, he can remember when and where each picture was taken by him and his son in producing the books. He supported the CSX Cumberland Shops Christmas party for many years. His book, Railroading around Cumberland featured both his photographs and his research, as did his other Arcadia Title, Cumberland, Then and Now. He also documented the MARC commuter line.Many of his books come from University courses he has taught, such as RISC Architecture, the Intel x86 Computer architecture, the ARM Processor Architecture, the book on Floating Point Processing in Computing, the 8-bit microprocessor book, the 16-bit one, and Massively Parallel Multiprocessor Systems, as well as his favorite chip, the Transputer. He is thinking about implementing a "new Transputer" cluster computer in an FPGA architecture.He was instrumental in getting his wife's grandfather's book published, which was a 2,000 page collection of crossword definitions and words, spanning over 50 years of
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