Using the software that came with your webcam, usually found on the CD packaged with your laptop, you can also alter how your camera detects light and sound. Getting Windows to detect your webcam involves checking your Devices from the Control Panel, but you can be up and running conference calls within minutes.
Forty-seven-year old comedian and actor John Thomson met fellow comic Steve Coogan while studying drama at Manchester Polytechnic and he secured him a job on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image.
In 1884, Thomson became Cavendish Professor of Physics. In 1890, he married Rose Paget, and he had two children with her. One of his students was Ernest Rutherford, who would later succeed him in the post. Thomson's discovery of the electron began in 1895 with a series of experiments in the Cavendish Laboratory.