Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.
1747
Benjamin Franklin writes the first of the famous series of letters in which he describes his experiments with electricity to Peter Collinson a fellow of the Royal Society of London, England. In this first letter, he writes, “For my own part I never was before engaged in any study that so totally engrossed my attention and my time as this has lately done; for what with making experiments when I can be alone, and repeating them to my friends and acquaintances, who, from the novelty of the thing, come continually in crowds to see them, I have, during some months past, had little leisure for anything else.” Read more about Franklin’s experiments at The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary website.
1905
Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania patents the first radio fax in the US. He describes the device as “a system for transmitting intelligence.”
1910
Frenchman Henri Fabre, aboard his seaplane, Le Canard, becomes the first pilot to take off from the water.
1935
Robert H. Goddard successfully uses gyroscopes to correct the course of a rocket’s flight for the first time. The Goddard A series rocket achieves an altitude of 4,800 feet or 0.91 miles (1.46km) at an average speed of 550mph over twenty seconds.
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10 operating systems the world left behind – You’re not really supposed to love an operating system. It’s like your car’s hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It’s supposed to do its job — and not get in your way while you’re doing yours. But like your car, your guts and the economy, computers are more complicated than they seem. And so are our feelings about them.
101 Undiscovered Freebies – PC World scoured the Internet to come up with 101 innovative, entirely free downloads and services.
13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance – Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about.
Cool New Things You Can Do with Your Mobile – A video of David Pogue discussing the latest trends in cellular phone and information technology at the TED conference. Both funny and informative.
Internet Archive – The single largest depository of Open Source content has moved its data from racks of Linux machines to a Sun MD, a 3 petabyte data center in a liquid cooled shipping container, sitting in Sun’s Santa Clara campus court yard. Check out the interactive tour of how it works and what it looks like.
Wikirank – An analytical tool that measures the popularity of trending topics on wikipedia. You can compare up to four topics and generate nifty embeddable graphs.
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1884
The first long-distance telephone phone call is made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City by branch managers of the American Bell Telephone Company. While sound is carried satisfactorily over the line, maintaining a clear connection over long distance will remain extremely difficulty into the turn of the century.
1899
Guglielmo Marconi receives the first wireless signal transmitted across the English Channel, between Boulogne, France and his ship-to-shore station at the South Foreland Lighthouse outside Dover, England. The signal is a test held at the request of the French Government, which is considering licensing the invention in France, and it is observed by representatives of the French government at both stations.
1956
Southern Bell, which serves Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas, installs its five-millionth telephone in the office of the governor of Georgia.
1961
The first mobile computer center, a UNIVAC Solid-State 90 computer loaded into a motor van, is used by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. The mobile center was created by Remington Rand UNIVAC, a division of Sperry Rand.
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More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
We think Apple has at least one thing right – the Macintosh is the one machine with the potential to challenge IBM’s hold on the market.
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