Commercially available since the late 1930s, the television set has become a common
communications receiver in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a
source of entertainment and news. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available servers and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (14 May 1686 � 16 September 1736) was an ethnic German physicist and engineer who was born in Danzig (Poland) but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic.