1903
The Boston-based National Bell Telephone Company is dissolved by court decree.
1929
The first commercial ship-to-shore mobile telephone service is launched.
1931
Lloyd Espenschied and Herman A. Affel receive the first US patent for coaxial cable. (US No. 1,835,031) The patent, described as a “concentric conducting system,” is assigned to American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) of New York City.
1943
Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, is delivered to Bletchley Park, Britain’s secret cryptanalysis headquarters during World War II. It was designed by engineer Tommy Flowers at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill, north London with input from mathematician Max Newman. It incorporates 1,500 thermionic valves (vacuum tubes), and it is capable of optically reading a paper tape and applying a functions to each character, at a rate of five thousand characters a second.
1947
J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly incorporate the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation to design and build computers for commercial and military applications following a dispute with the administration of the University of Pennsylvania over ENIAC patent rights.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
Effect Games – free, online tools for building, sharing and playing your own browser based games.
Google Sidewiki – What Google has essentially done is forced every website in the world into a web 2.0 system, whether they like it or not. Sidewiki creates user generated feedback and content relating to any website – period. It doesn’t matter whether your website wants that feedback – it gets it no matter what, hosted right there alongside your own content.
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Window Farms is a DIY urban agriculture project started in New York. It’s not just about changing the way we think about plants in urban contexts. (If you like it, donate.)
Wolfram|Alpha – The latest search engine on the block can now guide you step by step through the process of solving most simple mathematical problems, from quadratic equations to taking the integral of a complex function.
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Oceansize is a short 3D movie produced by four Supinfocom Arles students in 2008. In it, workers on a futuristic oil-rig find themselves overwhelmed by a gigantic sea-creature intent on reclaiming the ocean for itself.
Source: Oceansize
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1877
At the offices of the Scientific American magazine, Thomas Edison demonstrates his improved phonograph, using a cylinder wrapped with tinfoil instead of wax-coated paper. Just the day prior, he made the first recording using the device to demonstrate it to John Kruesi, the machinist who built it from Edison’s sketches.
1909
Leo Baekeland of Yonkers, New York, receives the first US patents for a thermosetting artificial plastic. (US No. 942,699) The patent for “an improvement in methods of making insoluble condensation products of phenol-formaldehyde” covers the creation of what Baekeland dubbed Bakelite. Bakelite is the beginning of the plastics industry. It is a nonflammable material cheaper and more versatile than other known plastics. It will be used in a wide variety of application, from inexpensive jewelry to sophisticated electronics.
1930
W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast features the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, the radio show’s sponsor. The station will be fined for running the advertisement, however, as the station is not authorized to sell commercial television time. (There are some references to an earlier ad aired by W1XAY in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1928, but no substantive evidence.)
1938
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper begins a two-year experiment to deliver an abbreviated version of the paper by UHF radio to fifteen households equipped with special receivers.
1945
Universal Pictures releases the horror film House of Dracula, directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Martha O’Driscoll, and Lionel Atwill, to US theaters. It is a sequel to House of Frankenstein and features Universal’s three most popular monsters: Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and The Wolf Man. IMDB listing
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